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conniption
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have a conniption (fit)
Rur. to get angry or hysterical. (See also have a fit) I got so mad I thought I was going to have a conniption. My father had a conniption fit when I got home this morning.
See also: have
have a conniption fit  (American old-fashioned)
to be very angry or upset My mother would have a conniption fit if she could see me now.
See also: fit, have
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CARSON CITY — As governor, what do you do when a legislative committee, controlled by Democrats, gives you conniptions, moving staff positions out of your office and delaying the spending of stimulus dollars?
Gibbons ready to tear at legislative patch by David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun
While it may be difficult to ascertain whether sodomy or its prosecution was really increasing (on a per capita basis), it is clear that the press and public figures periodically went into conniptions over "sexual deviants.
The fate of sodomy law in the U.S by Rosario, Vernon / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The Ingram-Behre family is solidly middle-class, fully employed, and not especially threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street.
THE AGE OF FRUGALITY by Steve Hamm, with Lauren Young and Burt Helm in New York / BusinessWeek
 
 
 
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