Have A Fit Idiom American Expressions and American Idioms

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have a fit What does have a fit mean?	become upset	The woman had a fit when she saw what her son had done to her car.
have a fit What does have a fit mean?	to become upset	The woman had a fit when she saw what her son had done to her car.
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get one's start What does "get one's start" mean?	to receive the first major opportunity of one's career	The newspaper owner got his start by selling papers when he was a child.

press the flesh What does "press the flesh" mean?	to shake hands with people in order to become more popular (often used for a politician)	The politician spent most of the weekend pressing the flesh in the shopping mall.
up to one's ears/eyeballs/neck in (something) What does "up to one's ears/eyeballs/neck in (something)" mean?	to have a lot of something, to be much involved or busy with something	I have been up to my ears in work for several weeks now.
equal to (something) What does "equal to (something)" mean?	to be able to deal with something	The apartment manager was equal to the task of managing the building.
kill time What does "kill time" mean?	waste time	We had to kill a lot of time before the movie started.
more and more What does "more and more" mean?	increasingly, an increasing number	More and more people are buying laptop computers.
first daddy What does "first daddy" mean?	first sergeant

in the same boat What does "in the same boat" mean?	in a similar situation	We are all in the same boat now that our store has gone out of business.
crack of dawn What does "crack of dawn" mean?	daybreak, early in the morning	We got up at the crack of dawn to go fishing.
blow off What does "blow off" mean?	waste time.	I blew off the evening playing with my Wii.

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Have A Fit Idiom