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

I've read about the Boy Scouts; but my mother would take a fit if she thought I was practicing to become a soldier.

From The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

With a half wail, half shriek, her knees gave way under her, and she sank on the floor wriggling as if about to take a fit.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson

He’s not half so given to serious talk as you are, Whitewing, though I’m free to admit that he does take a fit o’ that sort now an’ again, and seems raither fond of it.

From The Prairie Chief by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“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