lose one's temper

Questions about lose one's temper

What does lose one's temper mean?

lose one's temper means "get very angry and fly into a rage".

What is another word for lose one's temper?

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 lose one's temper a common word?

lose one's temper 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.