blow one's stack

Questions about blow one's stack

What does blow one's stack mean?

blow one's stack means "get very angry and fly into a rage".

What is another word for blow one's stack?

Close synonyms include flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blow one's stack a common word?

blow one's stack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.