wobbly

wobbly
: chuck a wobbly Lose your temper, have a tantrum, as when one federal parliamentarian admonished another in the Senate, 'Stop chucking a wobbly, Senator. Behave yourself.' It is a variation on the earlier phrase 'throw a fit'. 'Chuck', in the sense of 'throw' or 'stage', is used in other Australian expressions with the same meaning, such as 'chuck a mental' and 'chuck a mickey'.

Australian idioms. 2014.

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