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31lose one's temper — verb 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 • Syn: ↑flip one s lid, ↑blow up, ↑throw a fit, ↑hit the roof, ↑hit the ceiling, ↑ …
32lose one’s grip — AND lose one’s hold tv. o lose one’s control over something. □ When I begin to lose my grip, I will just quit. □ I’m losing my hold. It must be time to chuck it …
33lose one's cool — vb to lose one s composure or one s temper. A phrase from the 1950s American hip vocabulary, usually heard in the form of an admonition. It was adopted in Britain, first by jazz fans and then beatniks, in the late 1950s. ► Try not to lose your… …
34lose one's rag — vb British to lose one s temper, lose control of oneself. This mainly working class expression is of obscure origin; the word rag has meant variously one s tongue, a flag, to tease and to bluster or rage, but none of these senses can be… …
35lose one's bottle — vb British to lose one s nerve, have one s courage desert one. A vogue term of the late 1970s, when it crossed from the jargon of marginals, criminals and the lower work ing class into general currency. (For the origins of the expression see… …
36lose one's temper — fail to maintain one s composure, lose one s self control …
37lose one's temper — Syn: get angry, fly into a rage, erupt; informal go mad, go bananas, have a fit, see red, fly off the handle, blow one s top, hit the roof, lose one s rag; Brit.; informal go spare, throw a wobbly …
38Lose one's block — to lose one s temper …
39lose one's block — Australian Slang to lose one s temper …
40lose one's head — panic, lose one s self control …