Idiom
lose it
Meaning
To lose control of a situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I almost lost it when the computer crashed again.”
“The children were screaming for hours, and I finally lost it and shouted at them to be quiet.”
“After enduring months of relentless pressure and mounting failures, the exhausted manager finally lost it during the board meeting.”
Examples
simple
“I almost lost it when the computer crashed again.”
contextual
“The children were screaming for hours, and I finally lost it and shouted at them to be quiet.”
complex
“After enduring months of relentless pressure and mounting failures, the exhausted manager finally lost it during the board meeting.”
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