fit to be tied
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Adjective
fit to be tied (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Very agitated or distressed; enraged.
- 1915, Kathleen Norris, chapter 8, in The Story of Julia Page:
- Some girls can set around until they're blue moulded, and never a feller to ask 'em, and others the boys'll fret and pleg until they're fit to be tied, with nerves!
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 40:
- ‘I’m fit to be tied right now. I’d like to throw my cap up into the air and yell Blue Blazes.’
- 2007 June 3, Michael Leahy, "Driven to Extremes," Washington Post (retrieved 9 Oct 2008):
- If you've also been caught in a traffic jam, you're maybe fit to be tied by the time you get to work.
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Synonyms
- ready to be tied