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Blow a fuse

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from flowing.
  2. 2
    get very angry and fly into a rage wordnet
  3. 3
    To lose one's temper; to become enraged. idiomatic, informal

    "When he learned that his daughter had eloped, he blew a fuse."

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