If you get in a tizzy or into a tizzy, you get excited, worried, or nervous about something, especially something that is not important. He was in a right tizzy, muttering and swearing Male journalists have been sent into a tizzy by the idea of female fighter pilots. in a tizzy feeling worried, nervous, and confused
() Unknown. American, 1935. Possibly related to tizzy “sixpence coin”, slang for tester, a name for the coin.“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001