Flip One's Lid (Verb)
Meaning
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic".
Classification
Verbs of feeling.
Examples
- When she found out her ex-boyfriend was getting married, she was going to flip her lid and give him a piece of her mind.
- Her husband's constant lying was starting to make her flip her lid.
- The manager was about to flip his lid because the employees were being very lazy that day.
- After waiting for three hours on the phone, she was ready to flip her lid at the customer service representative.
- The neighbor's loud music was making him flip his lid, and he was going to call the police.