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19 Feb 03 - 02:54 PM (#893660) Subject: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Morticia How many ways to say 'lost your/his/her temper'? I can't believe there are as many as the 'drunk' thread but I suspect there might be a few colourful ones....I'll start: Went into one Threw his toys out of the pram Kicked off anymore?? |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:01 PM (#893663) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Sorcha Lost it Went off Blew a gasket Over the top |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:05 PM (#893667) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Catherine Jayne Spat your dummy out Got a cob/monk on |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:10 PM (#893670) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: allanwill chucked a wobbly had a spak attack I'm sure there's lots more. Allan |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:24 PM (#893675) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: katlaughing Saw red Lost IT Went ballistic Went postal (with apologies to all PO workers) Went beserk Blew his lid Came uncorked (which has a nautical bent in that ships that weren't corked or corked well, could sink according to Stephen Leacock) Got her dander/Irish up |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:33 PM (#893683) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: GUEST,hilary Up the pole Lost his rag Blew a fuse Gone overboard Spitting feathers Lose your cool ......... |
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19 Feb 03 - 03:43 PM (#893698) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Amos Went over the top Started spitting barbed wire (or other condiment of choice) Blew his/her top, cool, Had a cow Got in your face, on your case, all over you Did a Bruce Lee Went for the poker/rolling pin Started throwing (dishes, glassware, ashtrays, plates, etc.) Hit the roof Have a fit Explode Go mad Flare up Storm, rage, carry on... ....? A |
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19 Feb 03 - 04:05 PM (#893724) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Rick Fielding "Gassed hissown people"! |
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19 Feb 03 - 04:07 PM (#893728) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: JeZeBeL Went ape Went apes**t blew his nut all the rest are unprintable. |
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19 Feb 03 - 04:21 PM (#893748) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Liz the Squeak Surely if it's a nautical term it would be uncaulked.... ? (pedant, pedant...) thrown a hissy fit, fit to be tied, gone quiet, spitting bricks (spitting feathers was always for someone who was thirsty) doing the finger thing (a friend has a VERY indicative finger point - she points it at the object that's annoying her, wags it up and down and the other hand on the hip..... when that happens, people run before she starts!) Going Gavin (from a colleague who is well known for throwing tantrums at work).. .could be any name but Gavin is a nice onomatopeic word. LTS |
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19 Feb 03 - 04:36 PM (#893763) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: McGrath of Harlow Had a paddy Did his nut Freaked out Erupted |
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19 Feb 03 - 05:50 PM (#893815) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: katlaughing No, LtS, it wasn't caulking he was talking about. It was cotton "stuff" stuffed between the loose-fitting boards on a steamer. They called it corking and to come uncorked meant they weren't stuffed tightly and thus the whole kit and kaboodle could sink. It's in his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town which I admit is full of some tall tales, but this one sounded good for explaining where the "popped his cork" or "came uncorked" came from, well...that and a champagne bottle.:-) |
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19 Feb 03 - 06:10 PM (#893821) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Amos Kat: The cotton stuff in deckplanking is traditionally made of oakum and secured with liquid pitch, and is called caulking, but it seems easy enough to imagine it being called "corking" in a regional dialect. Popping your cork also occurs when a bottle is left in the sun and heats up-if there's airspace inside it, or other gas--until the internal pressure exceeds the resitance of the cork's friction. 'Course I've had that happen to me sometimes, too! :><) A |
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19 Feb 03 - 10:01 PM (#893984) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: JennyO chucking a mental spitting the dummy flipping your lid going ballistic losing it spitting chips going apeshit losing your nana going beresque (variation of berserk, used by a character in an old Aussie soap called Number 96) losing your cool I might think of more later. |
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19 Feb 03 - 11:12 PM (#894023) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Cluin ate his own dick blew an o-ring took a long walk to Kingston delivered the mail to the wrong house missed out on the potatoes got his Slinky mixed up with his Hungry Hungry Hippo Okay so I just made those up as I went along. Don't have a moose, man! |
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20 Feb 03 - 01:43 AM (#894082) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Ebbie came unglued had a hissy fit went bonkers had a spaz |
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20 Feb 03 - 02:59 AM (#894101) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Allan C. This is one of my favorites that might fit better in the thread about expressions from the American South; but I'll just post it here: He was a-tearin' up the pea patch! |
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20 Feb 03 - 04:35 AM (#894133) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: GUEST Climbed out of his tree. |
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20 Feb 03 - 05:41 AM (#894156) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Trevor Got a smash on |
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20 Feb 03 - 05:49 AM (#894160) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: McGrath of Harlow got pissed off went up the wall |
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20 Feb 03 - 05:51 AM (#894163) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: gnu turned three shades of red; was frothin' at the mouth; steamed; blew his whistle; started spinnin'; spun out of control; flew off the handle; took a fit; started chasin' crows; |
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20 Feb 03 - 08:24 AM (#894176) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: HuwG A few expressions which crept into British usage after the last Gulf War, courtesy of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf: Went ballistic Hit the overhead Is on the roof [The "overhead" incidentally, is Naval usage, as far as I know. Perhaps its use in this context derives from the Gulf War being fought from underground bunkers, where the Naval Types in the Coalition command were those who felt most at home]. |
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20 Feb 03 - 08:54 AM (#894197) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Peter T. "Took it out on Laura". yours, Peter T. |
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20 Feb 03 - 05:01 PM (#894594) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: iRiShBaBe threw a fanny attack, threw a wobbler, jawed (enter name...) (if they took their rage out on someone) |
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20 Feb 03 - 05:24 PM (#894609) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: McGrath of Harlow This thread should be reclassified as Folklore rather than BS shouldn't it? steaming boiling (but not frying or grilling for some reason) |
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21 Feb 03 - 05:41 AM (#895016) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: gnu Folklore.... hmmmmm.... In the early 1930's, there was a lad my father boxed with, back to back, on Saturday night, in the Bowrey (sp?), for beer ("prize fighting", ie, for money, was illegal while beer was overlooked). They would take on all comers and seldom went back to their neighbourhood without drink to sell. This lad was known as Grande Tete Rouge Irish, and was a size, especially compared to my father who weighed 115 pounds, soaking wet. If it was slow, he would taunt whomever he could. For instance, he would imitate an Acadian character he called Jimmy Suis (in loose Acadian French, Shaque, that would be "me"). Regarding doffing one's coat in order to fight, he would say, "I t'row my coat BOT' side da road, I come to fight me.", replete with the action of doing so. Hence, some around here still know what is meant when someone says, "He t'rew his coat bot' side da road." |
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21 Feb 03 - 03:34 PM (#895412) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Beccy Went medieval... Went wack-o... Flipped his lid... Had a hypie... |
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22 Feb 03 - 10:35 AM (#895819) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Sam L Got nut-up is a recent hip-hop term. Showed one's ass is on the southern expressions thread. But there are not as many as there are for drunkeness, which has more synonyms in more languages than any other word or phrase, according to Guinness. Not sure if that's the book of records or the beer, though, so maybe it could be biased. |
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22 Feb 03 - 12:07 PM (#895902) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Lyrical Lady The cheese slid off his/her cracker........... LL |
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22 Feb 03 - 12:14 PM (#895910) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: SINSULL His/her feathers were ruffled. He spit nickles. Threw a hissy fit. |
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22 Feb 03 - 01:09 PM (#895965) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Cluin LL, I think you're sliding into "How many ways to say someone is crazy" with that one. At least that's how I've heard it used... like "only got one oar in the water" and "half a bubble off plumb" and Neil Young's "his dock got too crowded for a stroll". |
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22 Feb 03 - 05:13 PM (#896120) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Little Robyn Got my wild up - was that Alfie Bass - The Army Game? |
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22 Feb 03 - 09:42 PM (#896271) Subject: RE: BS: how many ways to say.......?? From: Cluin "shittin' fire" |