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DictionarySeefitfit to be tied
fit to be tiedVery angry, as if one needs to be physically restrained. Mom was fit to be tied after I dented her brand-new car.See also: fit, tiefit to be tiedangry and agitated. (As if needing to be restrained.) Joe was fit to be tied when his wife told him she was leaving. I was fit to be tied when Mary tried to be friendly, after three years of not speaking to me.See also: fit, tiefit to be tiedFurious, enraged, as in I've been waiting for two hours and am fit to be tied. This expression implies anger so extreme that it requires physical restraint. [Late 1800s] See also: fit, tiefit to be tied AMERICANIf you are fit to be tied, you are very angry. Note: In the first two idioms here, `fit' means healthy and full of energy. Douglas was fit to be tied and made Harry pay back every last dollar. Note: `Fit' here means ready or suitable for a particular purpose. See also: fit, tiefit to be tied very angry. informal 1988 Joan Smith A Masculine Ending He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh, and he seems to blame me for the whole thing. See also: fit, tie fit to be tied Roused to great anger or indignation; outraged.See also: fit, tiefit to be tiedExtremely angry, enough so to suggest that physical restraint might be indicated to prevent major damage. This expression originated in the late nineteenth century. James Joyce used it in Ulysses (1922), “I was fit to be tied,” one of the more understandable expressions of feeling in that difficult book.See also: fit, tiefit to be tiedVery angry and upset. The image is being so agitated that only by being physically restrained, as if in a straightjacket, would a person be prevented from doing something rash and regrettable.See also: fit, tieFinancialSeeFit |