throw a fit
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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
"We get what we get, we don't throw a fit, and you just figure out ways to make it work."
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
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
This woman said she had hosted a thousand dinner parties over the years, and now — in her 70s — she was over it, but when she said so, her husband would "throw a fit."
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2021
As if Frank wouldn’t throw a fit for getting woken up by a blender.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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