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单词 to give fits
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to give (a person) fits
d. Hence colloquial in various hyperbolical phrases, as to scream oneself into fits, to throw (a person) into fits. Also, to beat (a person, a thing) into fits: to defeat or excel thoroughly, ‘beat hollow’; to give (a person) fits: to inflict humiliating defeat on; in U.S. to rate or scold vigorously.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > great manifestation of feeling
fit1841
tidal wave1870
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger
wratha1200
wrethea1400
hatelc1400
angerc1425
braida1450
fumea1529
passion1530
fustian fume1553
ruff1567
pelt1573
spleen1590
blaze1597
huff1599
blustera1616
dog-flawa1625
overboiling1767
explosion1769
squall1807
blowout1825
flare-up1837
fit1841
bust-up1842
wax1854
Scot1859
pelter1861
ructions1862
performance1864
outfling1865
rise1877
detonation1878
flare-out1879
bait1882
paddy1894
paddywhack1899
wingding1927
wing-dinger1933
eppie1987
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > surpass or beat
whip1571
overmaster1627
to give (one) fifteen and a bisque1664
to beat (all) to nothing1768
beatc1800
bang1808
to beat (also knock) all to sticks1820
floga1841
to beat (a person, a thing) into fits1841
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
to knock (the) spots off1850
lick1890
biff1895
to give a stone and a beating to1906
to knock into a cocked hat1965
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 157 It beats all others into fits.
1844 G. W. Kendall Santa Fé Exped. The man ran after the thievish Indian, and the corporal cried out to him to give him fits if he caught him.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xx. 76 Till the little wretch screams herself into fits.
1851 Knickerbocker Mag. 37 102 He's given the Mexicans, to their pain, Such charming fits—and will again.
1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home i. 7 He beat you to fits in the Latin verse.
1860 L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose II. 104 Such a proposal..would have thrown him into fits.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iv. 48 If you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman to fits.
1861 J. Blackwood Let. 23 Dec. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1954) III. 474 Your account of Caliban's exploit..has put me into fits. Archie is in an extasy with it.
1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xii. 101 I rather guess as how the ole man..will give pertickeler fits to our folks to-day.
1877 S. O. Jewett Deephaven iii. 53 She used to take a notion to set in the dark... I should have forty fits, if I undertook it.
1885 J. Runciman Old Pirate in Skippers & Shellbacks 87 We goes out and tackles a East Indiaman..and he gives us fits.
1906 J. London Let. 20 Oct. (1966) 213 Bailey Millard is throwing fits all around the shop..because of the way you worded your announcement.
1924 C. Beaton Diary 12 Apr. in Wandering Years (1961) ii. 44 I had fits at the back of the car because Papa kept shouting.
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