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
“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
"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 Rathborne, St. George
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
Although my uncle's habit was silence, however, he would now and then take a fit of talking to me.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by MacDonald, George
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