have a fit

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be very shocked, upset or angry

   If they found out I was allowed here before them, they'd have a fit.

   Curtis would have a fit.

In the movies · 11

• We need a doctor. I don't know. He's had a fit or summat.24 Hour Party People2002
• I don't know. She threw a fit at school.Orphan2009
• ... he nearly had a fit when he knew why I'd come.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
• I lock the door, and you have a fit about it.The Invitation2016
• Curtis would have a fit.Silkwood1983
• If they found out I was allowed here before them, they'd have a fit.Starve Acre2024
• You may have very fit occasion for it.Twelfth Night2012
• We thought maybe you were having a fit or something.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004

Learn it in full scenes

• 24 Hour Party People2002
  • Tony Wilson Names the Factory
  • Tony Wilson Names Joy Division
  • Tony Wilson Announces the US Tour
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner
• Twelfth Night2012
  • Orsino's Speech on Music and Love
  • Viola Disguises Herself as a Man
  • Sir Andrew Boasts About Dancing

From the same entry

• fit like a glove
• fill the bill
• answer a description
• face doesn't fit
• if the shoe fits
• fit in
• fit in
• fit out
• fit up
• fit as a fiddle
• fit for purpose
• see fit

More idioms

• a can of worms
• the big picture
• there you go again
• as a whole
• get your own way
• go through the motions
• have it in you
• leave it at that
• on sale
• out of the ordinary
• be fair
• in the wrong