hit the ceiling

hit the ceiling
    v 1: get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor
         combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very
         elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" [syn:
         {flip one's lid}, {blow up}, {throw a fit}, {hit the roof},
         {hit the ceiling}, {have kittens}, {have a fit}, {combust},
         {blow one's stack}, {fly off the handle}, {flip one's wig},
         {lose one's temper}, {blow a fuse}, {go ballistic}]
    

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "hit the ceiling":
      be angry, be excitable, bellow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket,
      blow up, catch fire, catch the infection, come apart,
      excite easily, explode, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up,
      flip, fly out, get excited, go into hysterics, have a tantrum,
      rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, run a temperature, seethe,
      smolder, storm, take fire, turn a hair