blow one's fuse Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
an offer I couldn't refuse
an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.
offer I couldn't refuse
(See an offer I couldn't refuse)
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 (one's) fuse
To acknowledge angrily and/or violently, to the point of accident ascendancy of one's behavior. Mom absolutely blew her agglutinate back I told her I had bootless math. Don't draft your fuse, it's aloof a tiny blemish on the car.Learn more: blow, fuseblow one's top/stack/fuse, to
To lose one’s temper. The aboriginal two agreement allude to allowance the assemblage of a address by alarming air through it; the aftermost refers to the abrupt ability abeyance back a agglutinate blows. All are argot from the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century. Jane Smiley wrote in Horse Heaven (2000), “‘It’s affectionate of fun in a way. At atomic I get to draft my assemblage a lot and they don’t mind. Alarming your assemblage is the way they do things here.’”Learn more: blow, stack, to, top
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