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in a snit
Idioms and Phrases
In a state of agitation or irritation, as in He is in a snit over the guest list . It is also put as get in or into a snit , as in She tends to get in a snit every time things don't go her way . The origin of this expression is uncertain. [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Trump has long been driven by the optics of a large and extravagant inauguration, starting his first term in a snit with the press over his inauguration crowd, which he falsely deemed the largest in U.S. history.
"For the Democrats, this was a brutal loss, but the plan to deal with it has to be better than 'stay in a snit,'" he said.
ATN really is about to help elevate an authoritarian to America’s most powerful public office because one spoiled brother is in a snit.
When De Niro complained that the first was too “light,” Kander and Ebb, in a snit, tossed off the famous one in 45 minutes.
I woke up in a snit — Couldn’t you at least have warned me? — and spent the morning angry at my wife.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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