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- noun colloquial A
tizzy ; a state of worried confusion.
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Examples
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But I don't understand why everyone has got in such a tizz about the Timeline.
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"It is true that some things come along like that to throw scientists into a tizz but it doesn't happen very often," adds Jones.
Science and truth have been cast aside by our desire for controversy | Robin McKie 2011
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Yet, unbelievably, here we are in the UK not even discussing a range of options but just one alternative to FPTP – and getting into a tizz about it.
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My my, we don't half seem to have got in a tizz about all this extra help and support from London recently.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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I was pootling back from the beach-side prom great pier, by the way, packed with vintage amusements – try the automated Gypsy Fortune Teller, when I came across a second beach which, thinking I'd got my directions wrong, or entered some Alice-like Wonderland, I mistook for the first beach and got in a right old tizz.
Let's move to Teignmouth, Devon Tom Dyckhoff 2010
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Once upon a time, the respective university grounds were full to bursting for these two November matches, school parties a-tizz with shrill excitement and the touchline press bench packed tight with the Fleet Street No1s in their greatcoats, knowingly puffing on their pipes and pontificating on each team's chances for the upcoming match at Twickenham.
Singing the blues for rugby's Major event and its men of Steele Frank Keating 2010
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April 8, 2010 at 1:43 pm oopz – mai soarses telz mih ai has miss spoak – tizz teh Butt!
Shock - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Serena is having a tizz -- Gossip Girl is reporting that she was spotted buying pregnancy tests!
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And while we all get into a tizz thinking about public safety and giving into a foreign blackmailer, we are being made to forget that the real reason the appeal was lost had nothing to do with these considerations: it has to do with the fact that were the case to come to a public airing, we'd all find out where the money, all those billions, actually went.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I was in a bit of a tizz deciding what to bake...definitely something rich but also something unexpected.
Professor's Chocolate Cake and Victoria Sponge with Ganache Shaun 2008
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