hit the ceiling

Questions about hit the ceiling

What does hit the ceiling mean?

hit the ceiling means "get very angry and fly into a rage".

What is another word for hit the ceiling?

Close synonyms include flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, have kittens. 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 hit the ceiling a common word?

hit the ceiling 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.