On Whit Monday the children in the village used to gather for a raucous game of stack-upon-the-kill, tumbling into a laughing dogpile on the green.

By noon, one had blown one's stack over the repeated mistakes.

When one is under great stress, one may find oneself blowing one's stack unexpectedly.

When deadlines pile up and the computer crashes, one blows one's stack.

After hours of waiting, one finally blew one's stack and demanded to speak to a manager.

The village's favorite pastime among boys was stack-upo'-the-kill, a rough historical game played with wooden tokens.

At the hearing, the witness swore on a stack of Bibles that he had never seen the defendant.

During the hearing, he swears on a stack of Bibles that he had no knowledge of the fraud.

During the trial, the witness was swearing on a stack of Bibles to convince the jury of his honesty.

In heads-up pots, your effective stack size often determines whether you should shove or just call.