have a panic attack
have a panic attack
1. To have an episode of acute anxiety and fear, marked by such physical symptoms as heart palpitations and hyperventilation. Back when I used to have panic attacks regularly, it got so bad that I was afraid to leave the house.
2. By extension, to have a particularly frightening or jarring experience. I thought I had lost my keys and just about had a panic attack.
See also: attack, have, panic
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- panic
- panic attack
- pace back and forth
- a faint heart
- faint
- faint of heart
- the faint of heart
- pace up and down
- pace about
- be in a sweat