take a fit

Idioms  

1. see have a fit.

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take a fit

“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

"Well, if you call that poor work, you'll take a fit when you see what I do," remarked the other, shaking his head in despair.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne

“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 Joseph Hergesheimer

“Oh, well, we were afraid that he might take a fit some time and get into the street and say strange things.”

From The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous

Although my uncle's habit was silence, however, he would now and then take a fit of talking to me.

From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald

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