take a fit
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“You go get a new one right now. Your mama take a fit, she see you. Don’t you tell anybody. I mean it.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Your father would take a fit over them.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
“Don’t you know better than to run him on a warm morning like this?” he complained; “as like as not now he’ll take a fit; young dogs mustn’t get their blood heated up.”
From Mountain Blood A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
He could not bear the idea of taking charge of a fitty woman, so the old gentleman got a seat, and his wife was never known to take a fit afterwards.
From Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years by Various
Say, wouldn't it be de tough luck if I was to take a fit when I was hoistin' youse up?
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
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