Hissy fit

Usage examples of tantrum.

Madame Bouvier would throw one of her famous tantrums, her French accent becoming more pronounced, then probably take to her bed with a case of the vapors.

There was a chance they might salvage something of the case but not if Polling had a tantrum.

As for the rest of my infancy, it is a passing lantern-show of swaddling bands, sore gums, wooden rattles, tops, hoops, rods, whips, tears, tantrums, messed underclothes, pulled hair, grazed knees, teeth left under pillows, burning candlewax, stone flags, water-rats, whiskery old aunts, causeless laughter and unreined grief.

She developed a serious case of cold feet once Varelli threw his tantrum, so she decided to catch up with Lowell in Bath.

Varro learned what a Pompeian temper tantrum looked like, complete with tears, gnawed knuckles, plucked tufts of hair, drumming of heels and fists on the floor, broken cups and plates, mangled furniture.

The tantrums disappear, cooperation increases, and, most important, your child sleeps soundly when together you manage the intensity.

The baby sucked on one grubby fist and hiccoughed tearily, as if just finishing an exhausting tantrum.

He was planning to bring up the subject when he showed Dungannon to his room, but after the Smarties and Yorkies tantrum, he lost his nerve.

I could teach him a good deal about headaches and backaches and all sorts of nervous revolutions, as the doctor says the French women call their tantrums.

I felt vaguely ashamed, as befits one who has thrown a tantrum in a sickroom.

Then he started lifting chairs and smashing them against the walls, kicking our overcoats about the room like a two-year-old in a tantrum.

Turk Wendell, or throw temper tantrums on the mound, like Al Hrabosky.

The strength which Colin usually threw into his tantrums rushed through him now in a new way.

When, at last, Mehleena had stopped her screaming, raving tantrum, Tonos approached her.

Mehleena had stopped her screaming, raving tantrum, Tonos approached her.