| 词汇 | conniption fit |
| 词源 | conniption fit. The English dialect word canapshus, meaning “ill-tempered, captious,” is the ancestor of the Americanism conniption, for “a fit of rage or anger.” A person can go into con- niptions, have a conniption fit, or go into a fit of conniptions— all mean the same. The expression is first recorded in 1833: “Ant Keziah fell down in a conniption fit.” |
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