flip : Idioms & Phrases

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flip chart

  • noun a chart with several sheets hinged at the top; sheets can be flipped over to present information sequentially
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Flip dog

  • an iron used, when heated, to warm flip.
Webster 1913

flip one's lid

  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage
    hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow up; blow a fuse; have a fit.
    • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    • Spam makes me go ballistic
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flip one's wig

  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage
    hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow up; blow a fuse; have a fit.
    • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    • Spam makes me go ballistic
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flip out

  • verb react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way
    flip.
    • he flipped when he heard that he was accepted into Princeton University
  • verb go mad, go crazy
    flip.
    • He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off
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flip over

  • verb turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
    flip; turn over.
    • flip over the pork chop
    • turn over the pancakes
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flip side

  • noun a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect)
    • the flip side of your positive qualities sometimes get out of control
    • on the flip side of partnerships he talked about their competition
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flip-flap

  • adverb with repeated strokes and noise
    • something going flip-flap in the night
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Flip"-flap` noun
Etymology
See Flip, and Flap.
Definitions
  1. The repeated stroke of something long and loose. Johnson.
Flip"-flap` adverb
Definitions
  1. With repeated strokes and noise, as of something long and loose. Ash.
Webster 1913

flip-flop

  • noun a decision to reverse an earlier decision
    turnaround; change of mind; reversal; turnabout.
  • noun a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
    thong.
  • noun an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
  • noun a backward somersault
  • verb reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
    interchange; alternate; flip; switch; tack.
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