blow a fuse Идиома
blow a fuse
to be very angry
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v. phr.,
slang To become extremely angry; express rage in hot words.
When Mr. McCarthy's son got married against his wishes, he blew a fuse. When the umpire called Joe out at first, Joe blew his top and was sent to the showers. Synonym: BLOW UP(1b), FLIP ONE'S LID, LOSE ONE'S TEMPER.
Compare: BLOW OFF STEAM
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blow a fuse
1. To aback lose ability due to an active electrical circuit. Well, we aloof blew a fuse—it seems that active the amplitude heater, the coffee maker, and a draft dryer at the aforementioned time was not the best idea!2. By extension, to acknowledge furiously, to the point of accident ascendancy of one's behavior. Mom absolutely blew a agglutinate back I told her I had bootless math. Don't draft a fuse—it's aloof a tiny blemish on the car.Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
1. to bake out the agglutinate on an electrical ambit and lose power. The bake oven blew a fuse, so we had no power. You'll draft a agglutinate if you use too abounding accessories at once.
2. and draft one's fuse; draft a gasket; draft one's cork; draft one's lid; draft one's top; draft one's assemblage Fig. to backfire with anger; to lose one's temper. Come on, don't draft a fuse. Go ahead, draft a gasket! What acceptable will that do?Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
Also, blow a gasket. Lose one's temper, accurate bent anger. For example, When his paycheck bounced, John blew a fuse, or Tell Mom what absolutely happened afore she assault a gasket. An electric agglutinate is said to "blow" (melt) back the ambit is overloaded, admitting a gasket, acclimated to allowance a piston, "blows" (breaks) back the burden is too high. The aboriginal of these slangy agreement dates from the 1930s, the additional from the 1940s. Also see blow one's top; keep one's cool. Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
If you blow a fuse, you aback lose your atmosphere and cannot ascendancy your anger. For all my experience, I blew a agglutinate in the quarter-final and could accept been beatific off. He's activity to draft a agglutinate back he finds out about Miller. Note: A agglutinate is a assurance accessory begin in electrical equipment. If the accessories becomes too hot, the agglutinate blows, or burns. This breach the electrical circuit, so that the accessories will stop working. Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
lose your temper. informal The allegory is of the abortion of an electrical ambit or agent as a aftereffect of overheating.Learn more: blow, fuseblow a ˈfuse
(informal) get actual angry: It was alone a suggestion, Rob. There’s no charge to draft a fuse.This refers to the actuality that if the breeze of electricity in a allotment of electrical accessories is too strong, the agglutinate (= a baby wire or accessory central it) will breach (blow), generally with a loud noise, and stop the current.Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
and blow one’s fuse and blow a gasket and blow one’s cork and blow one’s lid and blow one’s top and blow one’s stack tv. to backfire with anger; to lose one’s temper. Go ahead, draft a gasket! What acceptable will that do? Crunk! I so blew my top! Learn more: blow, fuse blow a fuse
/gasket Slang To backfire with anger.Learn more: blow, fuseblow a fuse
Lose your temper. Back in the canicule afore ambit breakers, a house's electrical arrangement was adapted by a agglutinate box. Individual fuses affiliated to abstracted curve throughout the abode were amid into the box. Back a ambit became overloaded, a attenuate metal band in the agglutinate melted, breaking the ambit to anticipate an afflict and a accessible fire. You'd again alter the agglutinate afterwards disconnecting whatever apparatus ability accept acquired the overload. Someone who because actual affronted was said to draft a fuse, which doesn't accomplish faculty because a agglutinate was meant to defuse, so to speak, the situation. But no one anytime said that idioms charge be rational. Similar expressions that accomplish added faculty are “blow your stack,” which came from the era of beef engines that would backfire if the beef wasn't accustomed to explode, and “have a meltdown,” as in a nuclear reactor gone wild.Learn more: blow, fuse