bursting point

the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.

a stage of emotion at which self-control is lost.

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First recorded in 1900–05

His fury was at bursting-point, and Beasley reveled in the devil now looking out of his angry eyes.
The Golden Woman|Ridgwell Cullum
Wine-skins stretch, but only within measure; for there comes at last a bursting-point when new ones must be provided.'
Outspoken Essays|William Ralph Inge
The colonel very likely would have puffed up with military consequence almost to the bursting-point.
The Rustler of Wind River|G. W. Ogden
The train was the centre of an excited crowd, the carriage full almost to bursting-point.
Poor Folk in Spain|Jan Gordon

Then the vast energies of the "south" would rise to bursting-point and a "through blizzard" would be the result.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson