throw a fit

idiom

variants or have a fit

: to express extreme anger

Dad will throw a fit if he finds out.

Don't have a fit if it doesn't turn out as you want.

Examples of throw a fit in a Sentence

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Last week when the U.S. took the highly unusual step at the United Nations of allowing passage of a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, Netanyahu threw a fit. —Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024

He was censured twice for, among other things, threatening to sic county inspectors on a gas station owner and throwing a fit at Legoland, which led to his later conviction for disorderly conduct. —Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024

Rapaport hilariously threw a fit at being eliminated, which host Nick Cannon could not stop laughing about. —Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2023

Roberta Kaplan, an attorney who has taken on multiple cases against Donald Trump, said the former president once threw a fit during a deposition at Mar-a-Lago after his legal team offered to cater her lunch. —Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024

And now the department has, the GOP is … throwing a fit. —Tori Otten, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023

In February, DeSantis criticized the U.S.’s support of the Ukraine war, but he was forced to reverse his position after some prominent donors threw a fit. —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023

The sports world has become an especially visible arena for this dynamic, as witnessed last year when National Hockey League commentators threw a fit at Ivan Provorov of the Philadelphia Flyers for declining, without fuss or comment, to publicly wear a Pride jersey. —The Editors, National Review, 24 May 2023

But day-care centers may take different approaches when youngsters throw a fit, said Samina Hadi-Tabassum, a clinical professor and the director of the child development program at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in Chicago that focuses on early childhood development. —Daniel Bortz, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023