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pop one's cork

To become explosively angry.
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They even decided to give him something they never gave Burton: an honorary Oscar. When O'Toole got wind of it, though, he popped his cork like a bottle of bubbly, and, at age 70, reminded the academy that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright."

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

Additional definitions for 'pop one's cork':

pop one's corkTo suddenly behave irrationally; to go crazy.
pop one's corkTo ejaculate.
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