blow one's top
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blow one's top (third-person singular simple present blows one's top, present participle blowing one's top, simple past blew one's top, past participle blown one's top)
- (slang, figurative) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
- When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just blew his top.
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- go ape, go apeshit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, lose it, lose one's rag, lose one's temper, pop one's cork
Translations[edit]
lose one's temper — see lose one's temper