flip out

Example Sentences

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“His official biographer, Edmund Morris, said to me that the only time he ever saw Ronald Reagan flip out was after he saw the movie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

“It started with a good breakout, a good flip out, and tried to get up in the rush and obviously a great play by Bratt to find me,” Hamilton said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Such poetic abstraction risks sounding flip out of context, but the qualities of Ewart’s compositional practice made the gesture seem more like an authentic celebration of multiplicity and invention.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

When my wife had to literally pry them from her small hands to wash them, she'd flip out.

From Salon • Jul. 21, 2022

“Sure. Then why did you look like you were going to flip out when I showed up outside the field house? Everyone else went to the lake—captain’s orders—but you were here. Why?”

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau