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tearing their hair out

  • 1 ponerse como un energúmeno

    to go up the wall, blow one's top
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    (v.) = get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + knickers in a bundle, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, blow + Posesivo + top, blow + a fuse, wax + indignant, throw + a wobbly, throw + a wobbler, tear + Posesivo + hair out, blow + Posesivo + lid, blow + Posesivo + stack
    Ex. The trouble began when some journalists got their knickers in a twist over Reich's unusual theories -- one of these being the notion that every individual should have a healthy satisfying sex life.
    Ex. Now before anyone gets their knickers in a bundle over that statement let me clarify.
    Ex. I cannot for the life of me understand what you see in the Serb's cause that gets your panties in a bundle.
    Ex. Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
    Ex. He simply blew a fuse and decided to go out on the road, spitefully apologizing again and again, until he got it right.
    Ex. To wax indignant about a President's telling lies makes no more sense than to do so about a wrestler's faking falls.
    Ex. The good thing about having it in writing is that you`re then well within your rights to throw a wobbly and demand you get what you paid for.
    Ex. Of course there are things they don't like, and sometimes one of them throws a wobbler -- which sets the other one off!.
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    Ex. Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't -- instead she took the high road and simply just left.
    Ex. She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.
    * * *
    (v.) = get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + knickers in a bundle, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, blow + Posesivo + top, blow + a fuse, wax + indignant, throw + a wobbly, throw + a wobbler, tear + Posesivo + hair out, blow + Posesivo + lid, blow + Posesivo + stack

    Ex: The trouble began when some journalists got their knickers in a twist over Reich's unusual theories -- one of these being the notion that every individual should have a healthy satisfying sex life.

    Ex: Now before anyone gets their knickers in a bundle over that statement let me clarify.
    Ex: I cannot for the life of me understand what you see in the Serb's cause that gets your panties in a bundle.
    Ex: Yoga is better for people who are always blowing their top and who are therefore prone to high blood pressure.
    Ex: He simply blew a fuse and decided to go out on the road, spitefully apologizing again and again, until he got it right.
    Ex: To wax indignant about a President's telling lies makes no more sense than to do so about a wrestler's faking falls.
    Ex: The good thing about having it in writing is that you`re then well within your rights to throw a wobbly and demand you get what you paid for.
    Ex: Of course there are things they don't like, and sometimes one of them throws a wobbler -- which sets the other one off!.
    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .
    Ex: Of course her initial reaction was to blow her lid, but she didn't -- instead she took the high road and simply just left.
    Ex: She really blew her stack as she stomped out of the sales manager's office talking to herself.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ponerse como un energúmeno

  • 2 tirarse de las barbas

    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out

    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .

    Spanish-English dictionary > tirarse de las barbas

  • 3 arrancarse el pelo a manojos

    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out

    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .

    Spanish-English dictionary > arrancarse el pelo a manojos

  • 4 estar que + subirse + por las paredes

    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out

    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .

    Spanish-English dictionary > estar que + subirse + por las paredes

  • 5 ponerse frenético

    (v.) = go + berserk, go + postal, go + crazy, work up + a lather, tear + Posesivo + hair out, be furious
    Ex. It depicts fascism as a crusade for preserving literature's purity, a crusade that went berserk.
    Ex. You have also probably read about cases where an employee ' went postal' and entered a company building, shooting his boss and other employees.
    Ex. Sawer went crazy after the woman he was having an affair with was caught and her husband killed her.
    Ex. The boy's mother got angry as a hornet and obtained a lawyer, who also has worked up a lather over this grievous injustice.
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    Ex. You hurt her pride and her feelings and she's furious.
    * * *
    (v.) = go + berserk, go + postal, go + crazy, work up + a lather, tear + Posesivo + hair out, be furious

    Ex: It depicts fascism as a crusade for preserving literature's purity, a crusade that went berserk.

    Ex: You have also probably read about cases where an employee ' went postal' and entered a company building, shooting his boss and other employees.
    Ex: Sawer went crazy after the woman he was having an affair with was caught and her husband killed her.
    Ex: The boy's mother got angry as a hornet and obtained a lawyer, who also has worked up a lather over this grievous injustice.
    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .
    Ex: You hurt her pride and her feelings and she's furious.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ponerse frenético

  • 6 tirarse de los pelos

    (estar furioso) to be furious 2 (arrepentirse) to kick oneself
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out
    Ex. People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam.
    * * *
    (v.) = tear + Posesivo + hair out

    Ex: People are clearly extremely upset, apparently tearing their hair out at having to deal with spam
    .

    Spanish-English dictionary > tirarse de los pelos

  • 7 В-243

    РВАТЬ (ДРАТЬ substand) НА СЕБЕ ВОЛОСЫ coll VP subj: human often fut or infin with готов, должен) to experience utter despair or become very angry with o.s. (often after having realized that undesirable consequences of sth. could have been avoided)
    X рвёт на себе волосы = X is tearing his hair (out)
    X is tearing out his hair (in limited contexts) X could kick himself.
    (author's usage) Блудов велел, чтоб каждое губернское правление издавало свои «Ведомости» и чтоб каждая «Ведомость» имела свою неофициальную часть для статей исторических, литературных и проч. Сказано - сделано, и вот пятьдесят губернских правлений рвут себе волосы над неофициальной частью (Герцен 1)....Bludov commanded every provincial government to publish its own newspaper, which was to have an unofficial part for articles on historical, literary, and other subjects. No sooner said than done, and the officials in fifty provinces were tearing their hair over this unofficial part (1a).
    Когда два-три часа назад ей сказали, что Митрий лежит у зарода на Марьиных лугах -отощал, идти не может, - Марфа готова была волосы рвать на себе. Господи! За что ей ещё такое наказание? (Абрамов 1). A few hours earlier, when they had told her that Mitry was lying by the hayrick in Mariny Luga, emaciated and unable to walk, Marfa had been ready to tear out her hair. God! Not another cross to bear! (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > В-243

  • 8 драть на себе волосы

    • РВАТЬ <ДРАТЬ substand> НА СЕБЕ ВОЛОСЫ coll
    [VP; subj: human; often fut or infin with готов, должен]
    =====
    ⇒ to experience utter despair or become very angry with o.s. (often after having realized that undesirable consequences of sth. could have been avoided):
    - X рвёт на себе волосы≈ X is tearing his hair (out);
    - [in limited contexts] X could kick himself.
         ♦ [author's usage] Блудов велел, чтоб каждое губернское правление издавало свои "Ведомости" и чтоб каждая "Ведомость" имела свою неофициальную часть для статей исторических, литературных и проч. Сказано - сделано, и вот пятьдесят губернских правлений рвут себе волосы над неофициальной частью (Герцен 1)....Bludov commanded every provincial government to publish its own newspaper, which was to have an unofficial part for articles on historical, literary, and other subjects. No sooner said than done, and the officials in fifty provinces were tearing their hair over this unofficial part (1a).
         ♦ Когда два-три часа назад ей сказали, что Митрий лежит у зарода на Марьиных лугах - отощал, идти не может, - Марфа готова была волосы рвать на себе. Господи! За что ей ещё такое наказание? (Абрамов 1). A few hours earlier, when they had told her that Mitry was lying by the hayrick in Mariny Luga, emaciated and unable to walk, Marfa had been ready to tear out her hair. God! Not another cross to bear! (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > драть на себе волосы

  • 9 рвать на себе волосы

    • РВАТЬ <ДРАТЬ substand> НА СЕБЕ ВОЛОСЫ coll
    [VP; subj: human; often fut or infin with готов, должен]
    =====
    ⇒ to experience utter despair or become very angry with o.s. (often after having realized that undesirable consequences of sth. could have been avoided):
    - X рвёт на себе волосы≈ X is tearing his hair (out);
    - [in limited contexts] X could kick himself.
         ♦ [author's usage] Блудов велел, чтоб каждое губернское правление издавало свои "Ведомости" и чтоб каждая "Ведомость" имела свою неофициальную часть для статей исторических, литературных и проч. Сказано - сделано, и вот пятьдесят губернских правлений рвут себе волосы над неофициальной частью (Герцен 1)....Bludov commanded every provincial government to publish its own newspaper, which was to have an unofficial part for articles on historical, literary, and other subjects. No sooner said than done, and the officials in fifty provinces were tearing their hair over this unofficial part (1a).
         ♦ Когда два-три часа назад ей сказали, что Митрий лежит у зарода на Марьиных лугах - отощал, идти не может, - Марфа готова была волосы рвать на себе. Господи! За что ей ещё такое наказание? (Абрамов 1). A few hours earlier, when they had told her that Mitry was lying by the hayrick in Mariny Luga, emaciated and unable to walk, Marfa had been ready to tear out her hair. God! Not another cross to bear! (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > рвать на себе волосы

  • 10 נתק

    נָתַק(b. h.; cmp. preced. a. נתך) 1) to break loose; tear out. Y.Shebi.IV, 35b bot. מקום שנהגו לקוץ יִתּוֹק לִתּוֹקוכ׳ where it is customary to cut the reeds, let him pluck them; where it is customary to pluck them ; Tosef. ib. III, 19 Var. יִתּוֹךְ לִתּוֹךְ. Cant. R. to VIII, 6 (ref. to Jer. 22:24) שהוא נוֹתֵק מלכותוכ׳ that he will tear the Davidic kingdom out of his hand; ib. משם אני נותקוכ׳ from there I shall tear loose the kingdom ; Pesik. Shub., p. 163a>. Bekh.33b נותק he who tears loose (testicles and throws them away); נותק אחר כורת who removes them after one has cut them (tearing off the roots). Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. VII, Par. 5 אם נְתָקוֹ אדם if a man made it bald (נֶתֶק); (R. S. to Neg. III, 5 אם נִיתְּקוּ בידי אדם, Nif.); a. e.Part. pass. נָתוּק (b. h.) an animal whose testicles have been forcibly removed; (oth. opin.: whose membrum has been mutilated by a violent severance). Sifra Emor, Par. 7, ch. VII; Tosef.Yeb.X, 5. 2) to cause oozing, to secrete. Tosef.Ter.III 13 ענבים רכות ונוֹתְקוֹת … ואינן נוֹתְקִיןוכ׳ grapes are soft and let their juice ooze out (when packed), but olives are hard and do not let their oil ooze out.; Y. ib. III, 42b top, v. דֵּיהֶאּ Pi. נִיתֵּק 1) to tear loose. Cant. R. l. c. (ref. to Jer. l. c.) אֲנַתֶּקְךָ אין … אֲתַקֶּנְךָ it does not say ănatteḳkha (I shall tear thee loose), but (it may be read) athaḳḳenkha (I shall restore thee, v. תָּקַן); Yalk. Jer. 303 אַתֶּקְךָ (Hif.); Pesik. l. c. 2) (to tear, pull) to remonstrate, protest. Sifré Num. 115; Yalk. Num. 750 התחיל הבן ההוא מְנַתֵּק that son began to protest (against doing slaves work); התחילו ישראל מְנַתְּקִים the Israelites remonstrated (against the laws imposed upon them); v. infra. Nif. נִיתַּק, נִיתּוֹק 1) to be torn loose; to fall out. Ḥull.123b שומר העשוי לִנָּתֵק מאליו a protection (cover) which it likely to come off of itself. Nidd.65a כיון שנִתְּקוּ שניווכ׳ when a mans teeth are gone; a. e. 2) ( to tear ones self loose, to remonstrate, be discontented. Sifra Aḥăré, Par. 9, ch. XIII גלוי … לִינָּתֵק בעריות it was known before the Lord that they would bear unwillingly the restrictive laws concerning sexual relations; נִיתְּקוּ בעריות they did remonstrate (ref. to Num. 11:10; v. Sabb.130a; Yoma 75a); Yalk. Lev. 590. 3) to be shifted, transformed, modified. Zeb.5b, a. fr. אשםשנ׳ לרעיה an animal dedicated as a guilt-offering which (on account of its owners death) has been condemned to pasture until natural death (v. סָאַב).Y.Naz.IV, end, 53c משנ׳ מלא תעשה לעשה since it (the cutting of the hair which is forbidden to the Nazarite) has gone over from a prohibition to a positive duty (Num. 6:18). לאושנ׳ לעשה a prohibition transformed into a command, i. e. a prohibitive law the transgression of which must be repaired by a succeeding act, e. g. (Lev. 19:13) ‘thou shalt not rob, and (ib. 5:23) ‘he shall make restitution. Ḥull.141a (for which ib. 12:4 מצות לא תעשה שיש בה קום עשה). Yoma 85b לא תעשהשנ׳ לעשה; a. fr. 4) (v. Kal 2) to enter a stage of moist decomposition. Y.Naz.VII, 56b, v. נַצֶל 5) (denom. of נֶתֶק) to become hairless and blanched, to be afflicted with נֶתֶק. Neg. X, 9 ונ׳ כל ראשו and his entire head became bald (v. קָרַחַת). Sifra Thazr. l. c. את שני׳ נתק בתוך נתק a person that became afflicted with a bald spot within a patch of hair surrounded by baldness (Neg. X, 7 שני נְתָקִין זה לפנים מזה; a. fr.).

    Jewish literature > נתק

  • 11 נָתַק

    נָתַק(b. h.; cmp. preced. a. נתך) 1) to break loose; tear out. Y.Shebi.IV, 35b bot. מקום שנהגו לקוץ יִתּוֹק לִתּוֹקוכ׳ where it is customary to cut the reeds, let him pluck them; where it is customary to pluck them ; Tosef. ib. III, 19 Var. יִתּוֹךְ לִתּוֹךְ. Cant. R. to VIII, 6 (ref. to Jer. 22:24) שהוא נוֹתֵק מלכותוכ׳ that he will tear the Davidic kingdom out of his hand; ib. משם אני נותקוכ׳ from there I shall tear loose the kingdom ; Pesik. Shub., p. 163a>. Bekh.33b נותק he who tears loose (testicles and throws them away); נותק אחר כורת who removes them after one has cut them (tearing off the roots). Sifra Thazr., Neg., ch. VII, Par. 5 אם נְתָקוֹ אדם if a man made it bald (נֶתֶק); (R. S. to Neg. III, 5 אם נִיתְּקוּ בידי אדם, Nif.); a. e.Part. pass. נָתוּק (b. h.) an animal whose testicles have been forcibly removed; (oth. opin.: whose membrum has been mutilated by a violent severance). Sifra Emor, Par. 7, ch. VII; Tosef.Yeb.X, 5. 2) to cause oozing, to secrete. Tosef.Ter.III 13 ענבים רכות ונוֹתְקוֹת … ואינן נוֹתְקִיןוכ׳ grapes are soft and let their juice ooze out (when packed), but olives are hard and do not let their oil ooze out.; Y. ib. III, 42b top, v. דֵּיהֶאּ Pi. נִיתֵּק 1) to tear loose. Cant. R. l. c. (ref. to Jer. l. c.) אֲנַתֶּקְךָ אין … אֲתַקֶּנְךָ it does not say ănatteḳkha (I shall tear thee loose), but (it may be read) athaḳḳenkha (I shall restore thee, v. תָּקַן); Yalk. Jer. 303 אַתֶּקְךָ (Hif.); Pesik. l. c. 2) (to tear, pull) to remonstrate, protest. Sifré Num. 115; Yalk. Num. 750 התחיל הבן ההוא מְנַתֵּק that son began to protest (against doing slaves work); התחילו ישראל מְנַתְּקִים the Israelites remonstrated (against the laws imposed upon them); v. infra. Nif. נִיתַּק, נִיתּוֹק 1) to be torn loose; to fall out. Ḥull.123b שומר העשוי לִנָּתֵק מאליו a protection (cover) which it likely to come off of itself. Nidd.65a כיון שנִתְּקוּ שניווכ׳ when a mans teeth are gone; a. e. 2) ( to tear ones self loose, to remonstrate, be discontented. Sifra Aḥăré, Par. 9, ch. XIII גלוי … לִינָּתֵק בעריות it was known before the Lord that they would bear unwillingly the restrictive laws concerning sexual relations; נִיתְּקוּ בעריות they did remonstrate (ref. to Num. 11:10; v. Sabb.130a; Yoma 75a); Yalk. Lev. 590. 3) to be shifted, transformed, modified. Zeb.5b, a. fr. אשםשנ׳ לרעיה an animal dedicated as a guilt-offering which (on account of its owners death) has been condemned to pasture until natural death (v. סָאַב).Y.Naz.IV, end, 53c משנ׳ מלא תעשה לעשה since it (the cutting of the hair which is forbidden to the Nazarite) has gone over from a prohibition to a positive duty (Num. 6:18). לאושנ׳ לעשה a prohibition transformed into a command, i. e. a prohibitive law the transgression of which must be repaired by a succeeding act, e. g. (Lev. 19:13) ‘thou shalt not rob, and (ib. 5:23) ‘he shall make restitution. Ḥull.141a (for which ib. 12:4 מצות לא תעשה שיש בה קום עשה). Yoma 85b לא תעשהשנ׳ לעשה; a. fr. 4) (v. Kal 2) to enter a stage of moist decomposition. Y.Naz.VII, 56b, v. נַצֶל 5) (denom. of נֶתֶק) to become hairless and blanched, to be afflicted with נֶתֶק. Neg. X, 9 ונ׳ כל ראשו and his entire head became bald (v. קָרַחַת). Sifra Thazr. l. c. את שני׳ נתק בתוך נתק a person that became afflicted with a bald spot within a patch of hair surrounded by baldness (Neg. X, 7 שני נְתָקִין זה לפנים מזה; a. fr.).

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