lose one's temper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːz wʌnz tɛmpə(ɹ)/

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Verb

lose one's temper (third-person singular simple present loses one's temper, present participle losing one's temper, simple past and past participle lost one's temper)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become angry or annoyed.

   When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.

Synonyms

• blow one's top
• go ape
• go apeshit
• go ballistic
• go postal
• hit the roof
• hit the ceiling
• lose it
• lose one's cool
• lose one's rag
• pop one's cork
• go bitchcakes

Translations

to be explosively angry

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  South Levantine Arabic: حمق (ḥimiʔ)

• Azerbaijani: qızmaq, qızışmaq
• Basque: bere onetik irten
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發脾氣／发脾气 (zh) (fāpíqi), 發火／发火 (zh) (fāhuǒ)

• Finnish: raivostua (fi), polttaa päreensä (fi), menettää malttinsa (fi), hypätä kattoon
• French: perdre son sang froid (fr), perdre son calme, sortir de ses gonds (fr)
• German: die Beherrschung verlieren
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: perdere le staffe, perdere la pazienza, perdere la calma, uscire dai gangheri, arrabbiarsi (it), vedere rosso
• Japanese: 癇癪を起こす (kanshaku o okosu), 怒り出す (okoridasu), 挙措を失う (kyoso o ushinau)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tū ngā pihi, tātāhau
• Portuguese: perder as estribeiras
• Russian: теря́ть самообла́дание (terjátʹ samoobládanije), горячи́ться (ru) (gorjačítʹsja)
• Spanish: perder los estribos
• Swedish: gå i taket (sv), få spel
• Tibetan: ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ (khong khro skye), ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ལང (khong khro lang), ཚིག་པ་ཟ (tshig pa za), དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ (dgongs pa khrel) (honorific)
• Turkish: küplere binmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: вихо́дити з се́бе impf (vyxódyty z sébe), ви́йти з се́бе pf (výjty z sébe)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (wa), monter a sminces
• Welsh: colli tymer

See also

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