throw a fit

Questions about throw a fit

What does throw a fit mean?

throw a fit means "get very angry and fly into a rage".

What is another word for throw a fit?

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

throw a fit 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.