do the/(one's) lolly
To become angered, enraged, or upset due to some provocation; to lose one's composure. Primarily heard in Australia. I'm usually a pretty calm person, but whenever I start driving, I find I do the lolly at the slightest inconvenience. When we were kids, it seemed like my dad did his lolly over the slightest little thing, but he's mellowed out a lot since then. A: "John sure did his lolly when he found out I was responsible for the printing error." B: "Yeah, we could hear him yelling all the way over here."
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