blow one's top

• blow one's lid
• blow one's stack

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blow one's top (third-person singular simple present blows one's top, present participle blowing one's top, simple past blew one's top, past participle blown one's top)

1. (slang, figurative) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.

   When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just blew his top.

• go ape, go apeshit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, lose it, lose one's rag, lose one's temper, pop one's cork