conniption

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The fine-tuning ends only during the technical rehearsals, when any further changes would give the designers, board operators and stage managers conniption fits.

From New York Times

It’s where Musk’s purported crusade against cancel culture, embodied in his “welcome back” to a man booted from peer platforms for an antisemitic conniption, is most at home.

From Washington Post

“There’s a very strong sentiment in this county that the governor has just thumbed her nose at the Supreme Court, in what’s being touted as an unconstitutional conniption fit,” he said.

From New York Times

Then the museum’s collection manager had a conniption.

From New York Times

The coach of our golf team, who had pulled a favor so we could play at the exclusive course for free, was having conniptions.

From Los Angeles Times