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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːz wʌnz tɛmpə(ɹ)/
Verb
lose one's temper (third-person singular simple present loses one's temper, present participle losing one's temper, simple past and past participle lost one's temper)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become angry or annoyed.
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper.
Synonyms
Translations
to be explosively angry
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- South Levantine Arabic: حمق (ḥimiʔ)
- Azerbaijani: qızmaq, qızışmaq
- Basque: bere onetik irten
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發脾氣 / 发脾气 (zh) (fāpíqi), 發火 / 发火 (zh) (fāhuǒ)
- Finnish: raivostua (fi), polttaa päreensä (fi), menettää malttinsa (fi), hypätä kattoon
- French: perdre son sang froid (fr), perdre son calme, sortir de ses gonds (fr)
- German: die Beherrschung verlieren, vor Wut kochen
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: perdere le staffe, perdere la pazienza, perdere la calma, uscire dai gangheri, arrabbiarsi (it), vedere rosso
- Japanese: 癇癪を起こす (kanshaku o okosu), 怒り出す (okoridasu), 挙措を失う (kyoso o ushinau)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: tū ngā pihi, tātāhau
- Portuguese: perder as estribeiras
- Russian: теря́ть самообла́дание (terjátʹ samoobládanije), горячи́ться (ru) (gorjačítʹsja)
- Spanish: perder los estribos
- Swedish: gå i taket (sv), få spel
- Tibetan: ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ (khong khro skye), ཁོང་ཁྲོ་ལང (khong khro lang), ཚིག་པ་ཟ (tshig pa za), དགོངས་པ་ཁྲེལ (dgongs pa khrel) (honorific)
- Turkish: küplere binmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: вихо́дити з се́бе impf (vyxódyty z sébe), ви́йти з се́бе pf (výjty z sébe)
- Vietnamese: phát cáu
- Walloon: potchî foû d’ ses clicotes (wa), monter a sminces
- Welsh: colli tymer
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