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conniption fit

/kuh-nip-shuhn/US // kəˈnɪp ʃən //

痉挛症,痉挛发作,痉挛性发作,痉挛

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often conniptions. Informal. a fit of hysterical excitement or anger.

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  • For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.

  • Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.

  • All other issues—racial, feminine, even environmental—need to fit around this central objective.

  • The weight and power and timelessness of Lana really fit that.

  • How has the Internet fit into your experience over the past two weeks?

  • Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"

  • The bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.

  • I've seen more cloes on folks' backs hyar, thet wan't no more'n fit for carpet-rags, than any place ever I struck.

  • “I went into a great passion and frightened my mother into a fit,” said Wardle.

  • To keep the roads fit for travelling on, requires about 60,000 tons of stone per year.