throw a fit

noun

1. a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
2. an onset, spell, or period of emotion, feeling, inclination, activity, etc.: a fit of anger; a fit of weeping.

Idioms

3. by/in fits and starts, at irregular intervals; intermittently: This radio works by fits and starts.
4. throw a fit, to become extremely excited or angry: Your father will throw a fit when he hears what you have done.

verb fits, fitting or fitted or US fit

1. to be appropriate or suitable for (a situation, etc)
2. to be of the correct size or shape for (a connection, container, etc)
3. (tr) to adjust in order to render appropriatethey had to fit the idea to their philosophy
4. (tr) to supply with that which is needed
5. (tr) to try clothes on (someone) in order to make adjustments if necessary
6. (tr) to make competent or readythe experience helped to fit him for the task
7. (tr) to locate with care
8. (intr) to correspond with the facts or circumstances

adjective fitter or fittest

9. suitable to a purpose or design; appropriate
10. having the right qualifications; qualifying
11. in good health
12. worthy or deservinga book fit to be read
13. (foll by an infinitive) in such an extreme condition that a specified consequence is likelyshe was fit to scream; you look fit to drop
14. mainly British informal (of a person) sexually attractive

noun

15. the manner in which something fits
16. the act or process of fitting
17. statistics the correspondence between observed and predicted characteristics of a distribution or modelSee goodness of fit

noun

1. pathol a sudden attack or convulsion, such as an epileptic seizure
2. a sudden spell of emotiona fit of anger
3. an impulsive period of activity or lack of activity; mooda fit of laziness
4. give a person a fit to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
5. have a fit or throw a fit informal to become very angry or excited
6. in fits and starts or by fits and starts in spasmodic spells; irregularly

verb fits, fitting or fitted

7. (intr) informal to have a sudden attack or convulsion, such as an epileptic seizure

noun

1. archaic a story or song or a section of a story or song

v.“be suitable,” probably from early 15c.; “to be the right shape,” 1580s, from fit (adj.). Related: Fitted; fitting. Fitted sheets is attested from 1963. n.3part of a poem, Old English fitt, of unknown origin. n.11823, “the fitting of one thing to another,” later (1831) “the way something fits.” Originally “an adversary of equal power” (mid-13c.), obscure, possibly from Old English fitt “a conflict, a struggle” (see fit (n.2)). n.2“paroxysm, sudden attack” (as of anger), 1540s, probably via Middle English sense of “painful, exciting experience” (early 14c.), from Old English fitt “conflict, struggle,” of uncertain origin, with no clear cognates outside English. Perhaps ultimately cognate with fit (n.1) on notion of “to meet.” Phrase by fits and starts first attested 1610s. adj.“suited to the circumstances, proper,” mid-15c., of unknown origin, perhaps from Middle English noun fit “an adversary of equal power” (mid-13c.), which is perhaps connected to fit (n.1). Related: Fitter; fittest. Survival of the fittest (1867) coined by H. Spencer. see have a fit. In addition to the idioms beginning with fit

fit as a fiddle

fit in

fit like a glove

fit out

fits and starts, by

fit to be tied

fit to kill

also see:

give someone fits

have a fit

if the shoe fits

see fit to

survival of the fittest