throw a mickey
verb1
Australia To have a tantrum.
- ‘You're like all southerners, and by southerners I mean anyone below the tropic. They throw a mickey the first time they cop it.’1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 139:
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