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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

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

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  hit the ceiling
     vb.
     (alternative form of en hit the roof)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  hit the ceiling
     vb.
     (alternative form of en hit the roof)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  hit the ceiling
     vb.
     (alternative form of en hit the roof)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  hit the ceiling
     vb.
     (alternative form of en hit the roof)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  hit the ceiling
     Engelska vb.
     (tagg idiomatiskt språk=en) gå i taket; bli arg

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  hit the ceiling /hˈɪt ðə sˈiːlɪŋ/ 
  dosáhnout maxima

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "hit the ceiling":
     be angry, be excitable, bellow, blow a fuse, blow a gasket,
     blow up, catch fire, catch the infection, come apart,
     excite easily, explode, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up,
     flip, fly out, get excited, go into hysterics, have a tantrum,
     rage, ramp, rant, rant and rave, rave, run a temperature, seethe,
     smolder, storm, take fire, turn a hair
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     生气,大发雷霆;考试不及格

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