lose one's rag

Definition

To become angry.

Example Sentences

• "1928, Ethel May Dell, The Gate Marked "Private", G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 248, […] he could not have said wherefore. “She was dressed as a bride if you must know,” he said. “But I don’t know what you’ve got to lose your rag about. She’s nothing to you.”"
• "c'''1934, in Famous Plays of 1933–1934, page 449, Doll: Well, I’ll be trotting along. Sorry I lost my rag with […]"
• "1937, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Pie in the Sky, C. Scribner’s sons, page 315, […] home now and was I going to come with him or wasn’t I? And I lost my rag and said, no, it was his duty to take me home, not mine to take him."