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have kittens (third-person singular simple present has kittens, present participle having kittens, simple past and past participle had kittens)
- (informal) To become extremely upset.
Your mum will have kittens when she sees what you've done to your hair!
My teacher has kittens every time I get a question wrong.
- (informal) To be in a state of frantic nervousness.
The guests are starting to arrive, but the hostess is having kittens because nothing is ready yet.
2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”
- (literal) Usually of a female cat, to give birth to kittens.
Translations
to become extremely upset
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