lose it
English
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Verb
[edit]lose it (third-person singular simple present loses it, present participle losing it, simple past and past participle lost it)
- (informal) To be overcome with emotion.
- (informal) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
- When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.
- (informal) To feel devastated, or distraught, especially when one's sadness is overwhelming.
- When she heard the news about her cousin's death, she lost it.
- (informal) To begin to laugh uncontrollably.
- When the teacher's chair broke, the class completely lost it.
- (informal) To lose one's mind, go crazy.
- (informal) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
- (informal) To cease to have a skill or ability, to lose one's touch, to be washed up.
- When you think about all she's done for the sport, it's kind of sad, but she's completely lost it over the past few years.
- (idiomatic) To lose control of a situation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 2023 September 1, Aubrey Allegretti, “‘She’s totally lost it’: inside story of the unravelling of Liz Truss’s premiership”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Even then, she defended everything she had sought to achieve, saying she had “the right policies at the wrong time”. “That’s when I thought ‘she’s totally lost it’,” said a former aide.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, it.
- 2015, Chris Nickson, Two Bronze Pennies, Severn House Publishers, →ISBN:
- ‘I’m Inspector Harper, Leeds police. Where did you lose it?’ / ‘Lose it?’ He laughed. ‘I’d never lose this. It was stolen.’
Synonyms
[edit]- (to be explosively angry): blow one's top, go ape, go apeshit, go snake, hit the ceiling, freak out, hit the roof, lose one's temper, lose one's rag.
Translations
[edit]to lose one's temper
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