tizzies

• “At first blush, it may appear that this brilliant bit of reflexive storytelling is being played for laughs, especially because it has so many of the show's adult characters in tizzies of varying intensity.”

  The Huffington Post: Ed Martin: One Life to Live Entertainingly Reflects on Its Own Demise

• “And then the media's magical election predictor machine kicks into high gear, and the results stream live to every party in the nation, sending ballrooms of supporters into tizzies and downward spirals.”

  The Washington Post: Election 2010: A walk on the mild side of victory (or defeat) parties

• “Before all you tizzies up and run for the old guy who can't even remember where he's speaking ... consider this, WOMEN.”

  Clinton: No cause for alarm

• “The economic crisis has rippled across the rivers, driving sellers into hiding, buyers into tizzies of anticipation and analysts and brokers into thorough consternation.”

  Hurricane Wall Street Hits the Boroughs

• “In fact, considering the large number of awards programs out there, the mystery community chokes up a fairly small number of tizzies worth thinking about.”

  Squabbles in the Mystery Family

• “The Parents Television Council is in one of its trademark tizzies and have issued this bulletin from the Department of the Obvious: Network TV likes sex, not marriage.”

  Parents Television Council: There's not enough sex on TV! (sort of) | EW.com

• “The members of a thousand consciousness-raising groups drove themselves into a thousand tizzies trying to think up a solution to this homely yet vexing problem.”

  How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement

• “As I carried the tray into the living room, Holy Terror went into one of his Siamese tizzies, flying up and down stairs and around the house at great speed until he swooped over my shoulder and landed in the tray.”

  The Cat Who Came To Breakfast

• “Now all he had to do was get a little hint of something connected with cultural xenology, and his mind went off on dizzy tizzies.”

  Dead Giveaway

• “Horace Greeley is well known to have been an exceedingly bad writer; but when he quoted the well-known line (which is said to be equal to a florin, because there are four tizzies in it) --”

  Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"

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