Hit The Ceiling (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
- My mom will hit the ceiling if she finds out I scratched her car.
- He was furious and hit the ceiling when his neighbors wouldn't turn down their music.
- She hit the ceiling when her boss rejected her suggestion for the fourth time.
- The news that the concert tickets were sold out made her hit the ceiling.
- When I told him I wasn't going to pay for his broken phone, he hit the ceiling.
Synonyms
- Lose One's Temper
- Throw A Fit
- Combust
- Blow A Fuse
- Have Kittens
- Go Ballistic
- Flip One's Lid
- Hit The Roof
- Fly Off The Handle
- Flip One's Wig
- Have A Fit
- Blow Up
- Blow One's Stack