temper tantrum
Example Sentences
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And rather than demonstrate that they can judge responsibly, they seized on Wednesday’s hearing to throw a combination temper tantrum/gaslight party.
From Slate
But even the perception that Carlson got canned for being a white supremacist was enough to set off a temper tantrum in the Fox News audience.
From Salon
I had a sobbing fit in a field of wheat in the middle of Spain and I just had a temper tantrum, which is, as people say, a white light experience.
From Salon
Capitol and others deriding it as a “temper tantrum.”
From Washington Post
Farmer also referred to the gun control protest as a “temper tantrum.”
From Washington Post
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