throw a fit
Example Sentences
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Did you know our Sun can throw a fit - just like a toddler high on sugar?
From Space Scoop • Nov. 19, 2025
Maybe Rachel Berry would throw a fit if her performance was ineligible for a Tony Award, but present-day Lea Michele insists that she isn’t bothered.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Sometimes they throw a fit and knock over the grocery end caps, sending soup cans and cracker boxes tumbling into the aisles.
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2020
She doesn’t own the school or wield actual power over any of the other parents, outside of the “power” to throw a fit when she doesn’t get her way.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2020
“Jumper’s liable to throw a fit with that hide rattling along behind him, and you might not can hold him by yourself.”
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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