blow a fuse

Speech parts

1. blow a fuse - Verb

2. blow a fuse - Phrase

Meaning

get very angry and fly into a rage

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Synonyms

hit the roof fly off the handle have a fit hit the ceiling go ballistic throw a fit have kittens lose one's temper blow one's stack flip one's lid blow a gasket flip one's wig fume lose it rage

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Antonyms

chill out rest alleviate relax quell chill

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Hypernyms

rage

Examples

The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question Source: Internet

Spam makes me go ballistic Source: Internet

It is also able to tolerate short-circuit conditions up to 17 times larger than an electronic UPS, permitting one device to blow a fuse and fail while other devices still continue to be powered from the rotary UPS. Source: Internet

During the recording of their first song, he hit a note so high that he managed to blow a fuse on the recording monitor. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

blow a fuse

Close letter words and terms

blow blow a backsight blow a cloud blow a gasket blow a hole in blow a hole through