"fit to be tied" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] Mrs. Pepper reprimanded the master in the middle of the Park, before all the quality—Sunday afternoon, and the band playing, and the officers laughing, and he fit to be tied.",
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          "text": "A thought struck him: he would play off the old lady for her ill-breeding, and he imparted his plan to Filagree. Shortly, they were whisked into a [train] tunnel, and all was darkness. Smack! Smack! from Cromwell, and ditto, ditto, from the Muffin, as they faithfully imitated loud kissing. It was pitch dark, and the old lady was \"fit to be tied.\" \"Girls, what are you about?\" Smack! Smack! again.",
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          "text": "Rage, frenzy and grief, fluctuated in my breast with a terrible power. I was as one distraught, as one fit to be tied.",
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          "text": "I’m fit to be tied right now. I’d like to throw my cap up into the air and yell Blue Blazes.",
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          "text": "A man has a lot of time to think about a wife's anger during a long commute, […] You have all the way in to work to let it get into your head. And then if you've also been caught in a traffic jam, you're maybe fit to be tied by the time you get to work in the morning of you get home at night. You get the most depressing, down thoughts.",
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          "text": "You can run! / You can hide! / But we'll be right on your tail, / And we're all fit to be tied!",
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        "Very agitated or distressed; also, very angry; enraged, furious."
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        "(idiomatic, informal) Very agitated or distressed; also, very angry; enraged, furious."
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