lose one's temper

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 Turkish: küplere binmek (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Walloon: potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (wa), monter a sminces Welsh: colli tymer

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