English
Verb
lose one's temper (third-person singular simple present loses one's temper, present participle losing one's temper, simple past and past participle lost one's temper)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become explosively angry or very cross.
- When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.
Synonyms
Translations
to be explosively angry
- Arabic:
- Basque: bere onetik irten
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發脾氣 (zh), 发脾气 (zh) (fāpíqi), 發火 (zh), 发火 (zh) (fāhuǒ)
- Finnish: raivostua (fi), polttaa päreensä (fi), menettää malttinsa, hypätä kattoon
- French: perdre son sang froid (fr), perdre son calme, sortir de ses gonds (fr)
- German: die Beherrschung verlieren
- Hindi:
- Italian: perdere le staffe, perdere la pazienza, perdere la calma, uscire dai gangheri
- Japanese:
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- Korean:
- Maori: tū ngā pihi, tātāhau
- Portuguese:
- Russian: теря́ть самообла́дание (terjátʹ samoobládanije), горячи́ться (ru) (gorjačítʹsja)
- Spanish: perder los estribos
- Swedish: gå i taket (sv), få spel
- Turkish: küplere binmek (tr)
- Vietnamese:
- Waloon: potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (wa), monter a sminces
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