canary fit
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canary fit (plural canary fits)
- (idiomatic, dated) A highly emotional state of distress, anger, etc.
- 1932, William Guy Carr, Hell's Angels of the Deep, page 136:
- The thousand odd officers and men on parade nearly threw a canary fit.
- 1970, Gervas Huxley, Both Hands, page 25:
- When put out, she would declare that she'd been thrown 'into a canary fit'.