Idiom
flip one's lid
Meaning
To become explosively angry, to lose one's temper.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My boss will flip his lid if he sees this mistake.”
“When he saw the deep scratches on his new car, he completely flipped his lid.”
“The manager was known to flip his lid whenever his staff failed to meet the strict production quotas.”
Examples
simple
“My boss will flip his lid if he sees this mistake.”
contextual
“When he saw the deep scratches on his new car, he completely flipped his lid.”
complex
“The manager was known to flip his lid whenever his staff failed to meet the strict production quotas.”
Origin
Originally an Americanism, the phrase is formed from the analogy of a boiling pot explosively displacing its lid due to the accumulation of internal pressure.
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