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Definition of snit in English: snitnoun snɪtsnɪt North American informal A fit of irritation; a sulk. 〈北美,非正式〉气恼,愠怒 the ambassador and delegation had withdrawn in a snit 大使和代表团气愤地离开了。 Example sentencesExamples - In your angry little snit, you could've snapped at someone in a bad moment and we would've lost money!
- My sister was in a snit from being grounded and I wanted to shake it out of her and tell her to stop being such a selfish brat.
- You've got the left already in a fight, and a lot of people in a snit about this, about who lost the election, so I don't think that unity is there.
- She was in a snit when she left the farm, so you best tread carefully.
- During the times when he's not in a snit about something, he can actually be fun.
- Her snit fit was quite impressive to watch.
- You can't just pull it off the shelves in a snit.
- Oh, this should get the far left in a nice little Christmas snit.
- The result of that was a snit by me for a week, and a response by the managing editor to the head office that he would personally edit my work.
- He left in a snit, flew home and hasn't been called since.
- If being in a snit got me rewarded like this, I'd have to be in a snit for him more often.
- He'd been in such snits before, and many of his captors didn't live long enough to regret it.
- Zack wouldn't hear of waiting until tomorrow to decorate it, so in the interest of preventing a major snit, I acquiesced and dug out the stand and decorations.
- She was in too much of a snit to really pay attention to him.
- You could forgive him for a snit here, a tantrum there, an errant expletive in front of an impressionable young fan once in a blue moon.
- Major League Baseball is in a big snit over the Washington, D.C., city council's decision to stand up for itself over the cost of a new sports stadium.
- If she severs relations in a snit, well, so be it.
- I didn't quite mean to convey the image that I was in a snit because people disagreed with, or even disliked me.
- The snit is getting increasingly personal, too, with the French and German officials clashing with their American counterparts.
- Here in the US the principal right that gets people in a snit is the right to property.
Synonyms fit of rage, rage, fury, fit of bad temper, fit of ill temper, bad temper, tantrum, passion, paroxysm
Origin1930s: of unknown origin. Rhymesacquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit Definition of snit in US English: snitnounsnitsnɪt North American informal A fit of irritation; a sulk. 〈北美,非正式〉气恼,愠怒 the ambassador and delegation had withdrawn in a snit 大使和代表团气愤地离开了。 Example sentencesExamples - Major League Baseball is in a big snit over the Washington, D.C., city council's decision to stand up for itself over the cost of a new sports stadium.
- Oh, this should get the far left in a nice little Christmas snit.
- During the times when he's not in a snit about something, he can actually be fun.
- My sister was in a snit from being grounded and I wanted to shake it out of her and tell her to stop being such a selfish brat.
- You could forgive him for a snit here, a tantrum there, an errant expletive in front of an impressionable young fan once in a blue moon.
- Zack wouldn't hear of waiting until tomorrow to decorate it, so in the interest of preventing a major snit, I acquiesced and dug out the stand and decorations.
- I didn't quite mean to convey the image that I was in a snit because people disagreed with, or even disliked me.
- You can't just pull it off the shelves in a snit.
- She was in a snit when she left the farm, so you best tread carefully.
- The result of that was a snit by me for a week, and a response by the managing editor to the head office that he would personally edit my work.
- If she severs relations in a snit, well, so be it.
- He left in a snit, flew home and hasn't been called since.
- You've got the left already in a fight, and a lot of people in a snit about this, about who lost the election, so I don't think that unity is there.
- In your angry little snit, you could've snapped at someone in a bad moment and we would've lost money!
- If being in a snit got me rewarded like this, I'd have to be in a snit for him more often.
- Here in the US the principal right that gets people in a snit is the right to property.
- The snit is getting increasingly personal, too, with the French and German officials clashing with their American counterparts.
- He'd been in such snits before, and many of his captors didn't live long enough to regret it.
- Her snit fit was quite impressive to watch.
- She was in too much of a snit to really pay attention to him.
Synonyms fit of rage, rage, fury, fit of bad temper, fit of ill temper, bad temper, tantrum, passion, paroxysm
Origin1930s: of unknown origin. |