flip one's lid

present singular third person flips one's lid · participle present flipping one's lid · participle past flipped one's lid · past flipped one's lid · alternative flip the lid

1. idiomaticinformalTo become explosively angry, to lose one's temper.

   Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make you flip your lid.

   1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, New York; Toronto: Rinehart & Company, page 113

   2 more examples

   Drag him out your window / Dragging out the dead / Singing "I miss you" / Snakes and ladders / Flip the lid

   2003, Radiohead, “A Wolf at the Door”, in Hail to the Thief, performed by Thom Yorke

   His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman […]

   2009, Dee Kassabian, My Four Fathers and Other Short Stories, page 45

   Synonyms: flip out, flip one's wig, blow one's top, blow a gasket