flip one's lid

Verb

slang

(slang) To be explosively angry. / (slang) To be very scared.

Japanese Meaning

激怒する / 非常に恐怖を感じる

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Finding out someone had ruined the project at the last minute was enough to flip one's lid.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

土壇場で誰かがプロジェクトを台無しにしたと分かったら、誰でもかっとなって激怒するだろう。

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Sense（1）

(slang) To be explosively angry.

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 […]

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Sense（2）

(slang) To be very scared.

flips one's lid

（ present singular third-person ）

flipping one's lid

（ participle present ）

flipped one's lid

（ participle past ）

flipped one's lid

（ past ）

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