Fit to Be Tied
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Adjective
- Very agitated or distressed; enraged.
- 1915, Kathleen Norris, The Story of Julia Page, ch. 8,
- Some girls can set around until they're blue moulded, and never a feller to ask 'em, and others the boys'll fret and pleg until they're fit to be tied, with nerves!
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 18,
- I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza.
- 2007, Michael Leahy, "Driven to Extremes," Washington Post, 3 Jun. (retrieved 9 Oct. 2008),
- If you've also been caught in a traffic jam, you're maybe fit to be tied by the time you get to work.
- 1915, Kathleen Norris, The Story of Julia Page, ch. 8,