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Meanings of combust in anglès
Get very angry and fly into a rage.
Sinònims
Examples for "fly off the handle"
Examples for "fly off the handle"
1
You say that Professor Rogers tended to fly off the handle easily.
2
And if everything wasn't how he wanted it, he'd fly off the handle.
3
Maybe she was worried that Hank might fly off the handle.
4
It always harms a man, anyway, to fly off the handle.
5
Betsy was not one to fly off the handle like that.
1
Till then it is idle to wrangle, and to lose one's temper.
2
But I think it's a pity ever to lose one's temper.
3
I discovered also how easy it is to lose one's temper with these men.
4
She considers it bad manners to lose one's temper.
5
It is impossible sometimes not to lose one's temper.
1
Bjørn in particular has capacity to blow a fuse if suitably prodded.
2
I fly into a rage, and it's like I blow a fuse.
3
You ought to take your case to a psychoanalyst; he'd blow a fuse.
4
Shorts usually blow a fuse, but if it were an older house, could it be possible?
5
I plugged in the tape recorder, hoping I wouldn't give myself a shock or blow a fuse.
1
Gordon will go ballistic if we miss that press conference tomorrow.
2
We're agreed that the bottom line is that the fleet will go ballistic.
3
Fatima will broadcast the tape over the Internet and go ballistic.
4
That I'm-sorry-but-I've-got-to-do-this expression on Alex's face was about to make Michael go ballistic.
5
Darrell would go ballistic if she let a lawyer in.
1
It came to me suddenly: he meant to blow up the Intendance.
2
First, he judged it necessary to blow up the bridge of Demir-Hissar.
3
He could not blow up one of these bubbles on the spring.
4
Gas of northern metaphysics to blow up Broad Church bishops like balloons.
5
The wind begins to blow up sharply, though it was very pleasant.
1
The night watchman seemed like a man about to throw a fit.
2
I thought for a minute he was going to throw a fit.
3
He would give father-in-law a chance to throw a fit, next morning.
4
I thought the old guy would throw a fit, but he didn't.
5
Why, if Billy woke up and heard that he'd throw a fit.
1
The Disciple hit the roof heavily and staggered two steps past Jade.
2
Six-teen tons of monster hit the roof, which collapsed under the weight.
3
One hit the roof of a house but caused only smoke damage.
4
Your mother is going to hit the roof when we get home.
5
The beam hit the roof, began to move steadily toward the hole.
1
Atticus would hit the ceiling when Miss Muffett told him the gory story.
2
But when she told Brock this time, he hit the ceiling.
3
To throw the club higher and hit the ceiling?, she said.
4
The ball hit the ceiling about 170 feet above the ground.
5
He nearly hit the ceiling when Hairy jumped on his stomach.
1
Folks, my CPO is about to have kittens, we're cutting it so close.
2
You know, I'd like to buy a cat and then maybe Bast can have kittens.
3
You all ought to have kittens to play with, and nanny goats and woolly lambs.
4
Besides, if it's Bethi you're after, she's mine, and she's going to have kittens again.
5
If she could not have kittens, then she would content herself with puppies or rats.
1
I'm going to have a fit if we don't start right away.
2
Maisie'd have a fit if she knew you were out in it.
3
It was seven thirty and Raquel was going to have a fit.
4
Amma was going to have a fit when she smelled that tomorrow.
5
She was going to have a fit when he told her no.
Usage of combust in anglès
1
When that happens, two materials are brought together and they spontaneously combust.
2
My heart was a trip-hammer and I thought my lungs would combust.
3
I would spontaneously combust with enthusiasm every time I entered a classroom.
4
If I didn't have sex for another day, would I spontaneously combust?
5
There was a risk this could cause the coal inside to combust.
6
More like she might combust if she didn't get away from him.
7
And when it breaks down, it can combust violently, experts say.
8
What had happened between them to make them combust like that?
9
Angelica Dellal looked as if she might spontaneously combust with indignation.
10
I could walk next to it without feeling like my shirt would combust.
11
Next, Roeg mixed the acting elements that would combust in this border zone.
12
Now just thinking about it made her feel ready to combust all over again.
13
Other kinds of manure can combust at far lower temperatures.
14
They would have to combust spectacularly to avoid that outcome.
15
Because none of them had made his body nearly combust when they'd kissed them.
16
More than a few look like they might spontaneously combust.
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