throwing a fit
Example Sentences
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One white woman who felt unfairly indicted by the play was captured on video during a Broadway talkback throwing a fit.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022
“I contemplated throwing a fit or faking a seizure and hurling myself backward into the row of journalists behind me. But it would only have added to the humiliating spectacle.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021
Such stunts require purchasing an airline ticket for the sole purpose of filming yourself throwing a fit and then not flying anywhere.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2021
My parents never gave me a dime growing up and now my siblings are throwing a fit that they helped me buy a house.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017
Now here they were, alone again, while their friends might be dying at the hands of a monster army, and she was throwing a fit.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
