to react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment

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shit a brick

She was thunderstruck when she came face to face with the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. At her age, and in that same place, my big brother Bernie, a born scientist who can't draw or paint for sour apples, would have shit an even bigger brick. Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake'', 1997.

to react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment

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    to re·act strongly or excessively, es·pe·cial·ly in anger, fear, or as·ton·ish·ment

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