have a fit

Idioms  

1. Also,;; have kittens. Become extremely upset. For example, She'll have a fit when she sees Anne wearing the same dress, or Mom had a conniption fit when she heard about the broken mirror, or Don't take a fit—the car's not really damaged, or Jill was having kittens over the spoiled cake. One can also, as in His dithering about punctuation is enough to give me fits. Fit and fits, along with conniption fit, have been used in hyperbolic expressions to denote a bout of hysterics since the 1830s; throw a fit was first recorded in 1906, and have a fit in 1924; have kittens, alluding to being so upset as to bear kittens, also dates from about 1900.

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have a fit

So I continued with my own research, calling someone I was sure would have a fit about the idea: Los Angeles County Hispanic Republican Club President David Hernandez.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

"My objective is to have a fit squad going into the big games, the play-off games, and, in that respect, we were able to do that by utilising the squad and the youngsters."

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

“I knew people were going to have a fit, and they did, and he just did it anyway,” said New York City Council member Gale Brewer, speaking of Iweala.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

Second, Gates argued, our allies would have a fit.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2022

The children remembered Mr. Poe because he always had a cold and was constantly excusing himself from the table to have a fit of coughing in the next room.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

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