throw a mickey

English

Alternative forms

• chuck a mickey

Verb

throw a mickey (third-person singular simple present throws a mickey, present participle throwing a mickey, simple past threw a mickey, past participle thrown a mickey)

1. (Australia) To have a tantrum. [from 20th c.]
   • 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 139:

     ‘You're like all southerners, and by southerners I mean anyone below the tropic. They throw a mickey the first time they cop it.’