hit the ceiling

(verb) to be extremely angryExample Sentence:

The driver hit the ceiling when the policeman gave him a speeding ticket.

A: Are you mad?
B: I am going to hit the ceiling!
A: Why?
B: My boss fired me for doing something wrong, but it wasn’t my fault!

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Similar idioms:

1. hit the roof
2. enraged
3. blow one’s lid
4. hit the nail on the head
5. bark up the wrong tree
6. hit the sack
7. hit the road
8. hit the hay
9. hit the books
10. hit-and-miss
11. speed off