flip one's lid

Originally an Americanism; from the analogy of a boiling pot explosively popping off its lid due to built-up internal pressure.

• "Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make you flip your lid."
• "Drag him out your window / Dragging out the dead / Singing "I miss you" / Snakes and ladders / Flip the lid"
• "His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman […]"

• flip out
• flip one's wig
• blow one's top
• blow a gasket

• put a lid on