Thursday's slang word of the day: get (one's) knickers in a twist

Today's slang word of the day is get (one's) knickers in a twist. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.

get (one's) knickers in a twist

verb

• to become angry about something that the speaker doesn't think is worthy. Also get (one's) knickers in a knot.

  Don't get your knickers in a twist over him.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  
  Citation from "Incoming", Persons Unknown (TV, 2010), Season 1 Episode 5 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out.

  Last edited on May 13 2013. Submitted by Dawn L. from Louisville, KY, USA on Jan 01 2004.

Enjoy!

-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary

P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)