hissy fit

plural hissy fits

1. informalA childish display of anger or frustration; an overly dramatic tantrum.

   As for me, I don't care anymore if my kid has a hissy fit in the junior department.

   1993 July 26, Joy Overbeck, “Sex, Kids and the Slut Look”, in Newsweek, page 8

   2 more examples

   Viewers were aghast. . . . As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!"

   1996 May 13, David E. Thigpen, “If You Could Hear Her Now”, in Time

   One of the supposedly great hopes for the future of the party hasn’t even got the guts to admit that they threw a conference hissy fit

   2024 October 5, Camilla Tominey, “I’m still waiting to hear the reason why I was dumped by the Conservatives”, in The Telegraph

   Synonyms: tantrum, outburst, shit fit, snit fit, wobbler, tantrum, catfit, conniption