flip one's lid | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)To becomeexplosivelyangry, tolose one's temper.Synonyms:flip out,flip one's wig,blow one's top,blow a gasket1948,Norman Mailer,The Naked and the Dead, New York; Toronto:Rinehart & Company,page113:Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make youflip your lid.2003,Radiohead, “A Wolf at the Door”, inHail to the Thief, performed byThom Yorke:Drag him out your window / Dragging out the dead / Singing "I miss you" / Snakes and ladders /Flip the lid2009, Dee Kassabian,My Four Fathers and Other Short Stories, page45:His parentsflipped their lidswhen the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman[…]

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