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threw one's toys out of the pram

threw one's toys out of the pram is the simple past of throw one's toys out of the pram.

Meaning of throw one's toys out of the pram

Verb

throw one's toys out of the pram (third-person singular simple present throws one's toys out of the pram, present participle throwing one's toys out of the pram, simple past threw one's toys out of the pram, past participle thrown one's toys out of the pram)

  1. (British, idiomatic) To lose one's temper; to throw a tantrum.

Questions about threw one's toys out of the pram

What is threw one's toys out of the pram the simple past of?
Threw one's toys out of the pram is the simple past of throw one's toys out of the pram.

Words near threw one's toys out of the pram in the dictionary

  1. threw one's hat over the fence
  2. threw one's hat over the wall
  3. threw one's hotdog down someone's hallway
  4. threw one's luck in with
  5. threw one's name in the hat
  6. threw one's toys out of the pram
  7. threw one's voice
  8. threw one's weight around
  9. threw one's weight behind
  10. threw oneself at
  11. threw oneself behind

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