flip one's lid
blow up *
throw a fit
hit the roof
hit the ceiling
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

Mr. Friedman said, "I went slightly ballistic" when the reporters called back to say the report was wrong.

Vaporized metal expanded behind the missiles at the point they went ballistic and therefore harmless.

In "Going Ballistic", Ryan receives a text message saying, "It is done," right after Horatio is shot and presumed dead.

I go completely ballistic, and I say, 'What are you people thinking?'

Rosa's going ballistic.

But here's where Viacom goes completely ballistic.

I was about to tell him "nice putt" and concede the next when Vitus Papageorge went totally and completely ballistic.

The English tabloid scene went suitably ballistic, and people stared open-mouthed at the death of monogamy as they knew it.

"Going ballistic" - entered English as an idiom for throwing a wobbler after the success of Top Gun.

They go ballistic, start acting like they're guzzling rocket fuel.