Idiom
blow a fuse
Meaning
To lose one's temper; to become enraged.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My boss will blow a fuse if we are late again.”
“When he saw the deep scratch on his new car, he completely blew a fuse.”
“The manager threatened to blow a fuse when he discovered that the entire project team had ignored his explicit instructions.”
Examples
simple
“My boss will blow a fuse if we are late again.”
contextual
“When he saw the deep scratch on his new car, he completely blew a fuse.”
complex
“The manager threatened to blow a fuse when he discovered that the entire project team had ignored his explicit instructions.”
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