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"text": "1928, Ethel May Dell, The Gate Marked \"Private\", G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 248,\n[…] he could not have said wherefore. “She was dressed as a bride if you must know,” he said. “But I don’t know what you’ve got to lose your rag about. She’s nothing to you.”"
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"text": "c'''1934, in Famous Plays of 1933–1934, page 449,\nDoll: Well, I’ll be trotting along. Sorry I lost my rag with […]"
},
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"text": "1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, C. Scribner’s sons, page 315,\n[…] home now and was I going to come with him or wasn’t I? And I lost my rag and said, no, it was his duty to take me home, not mine to take him."
},
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"text": "1944, in William Boyd (Ed.), Evacuation in Scotland: A Record of Events and Experiments, University of London Press, Ltd., page 187,\nThere is frankness of discussion and remark. For instance, it is quite usual for a visiting member of the staff to ask, ‘How is your temper these days?’ The reply might be, ‘I haven’t lost my rag for a week,’ which is an achievement."
},
{
"text": "2006, Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 127–128,\nThe last time I went to God’s house, Call-Me-Arnold lost his rag with me. Which is a bit un-Christian. After all, there was no real damage done vis-à-vis the elderly pensioner’s scarf inferno incident."
},
{
"text": "2007, Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision, Solidus, →ISBN, page 295,\n‘Come on, everyone loses their rag occasionally. It can’t be that bad. […] ’"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Lucy Kellaway on BBC \"Business Daily\" (April 18)",
"text": "E-mail alone didn't make the office passive-aggressive, as we were going that way anyway. It all started a couple of decades ago when the four great forces of modern office life, political correctness, HR, PR, and litigiousness, ruled that it was no longer acceptable to lose your rag."
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"word": "blow one's top"
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{
"word": "go ape"
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{
"word": "go apeshit"
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{
"word": "hit the roof"
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{
"word": "hit the ceiling"
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{
"word": "lose it"
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"word": "lose one's temper"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colloquial: to become angry",
"word": "repiä pelihousunsa"
}
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"text": "1928, Ethel May Dell, The Gate Marked \"Private\", G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 248,\n[…] he could not have said wherefore. “She was dressed as a bride if you must know,” he said. “But I don’t know what you’ve got to lose your rag about. She’s nothing to you.”"
},
{
"text": "c'''1934, in Famous Plays of 1933–1934, page 449,\nDoll: Well, I’ll be trotting along. Sorry I lost my rag with […]"
},
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"text": "1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, C. Scribner’s sons, page 315,\n[…] home now and was I going to come with him or wasn’t I? And I lost my rag and said, no, it was his duty to take me home, not mine to take him."
},
{
"text": "1944, in William Boyd (Ed.), Evacuation in Scotland: A Record of Events and Experiments, University of London Press, Ltd., page 187,\nThere is frankness of discussion and remark. For instance, it is quite usual for a visiting member of the staff to ask, ‘How is your temper these days?’ The reply might be, ‘I haven’t lost my rag for a week,’ which is an achievement."
},
{
"text": "2006, Louise Rennison, Startled by His Furry Shorts, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 127–128,\nThe last time I went to God’s house, Call-Me-Arnold lost his rag with me. Which is a bit un-Christian. After all, there was no real damage done vis-à-vis the elderly pensioner’s scarf inferno incident."
},
{
"text": "2007, Patricia Ferguson, Peripheral Vision, Solidus, →ISBN, page 295,\n‘Come on, everyone loses their rag occasionally. It can’t be that bad. […] ’"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Lucy Kellaway on BBC \"Business Daily\" (April 18)",
"text": "E-mail alone didn't make the office passive-aggressive, as we were going that way anyway. It all started a couple of decades ago when the four great forces of modern office life, political correctness, HR, PR, and litigiousness, ruled that it was no longer acceptable to lose your rag."
}
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"word": "blow one's top"
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"word": "go ape"
},
{
"word": "go apeshit"
},
{
"word": "hit the roof"
},
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"word": "hit the ceiling"
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"word": "lose it"
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"word": "lose one's temper"
}
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"sense": "colloquial: to become angry",
"word": "repiä pelihousunsa"
}
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"word": "lose one's rag"
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