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A tizzy is a state of being worried, , and confused all at once — flustered, rushing about, unable to think straight. It nearly always appears in a phrase with in or into: someone is in a tizzy, gets in a tizzy, or is thrown into a tizzy by some news. The key to the word is that it is gently mocking. When you say your mother is in a tizzy about the guests coming, you mean she is very worked up over something that is not really that serious. You would not use it for real grief or real danger — a family in a tizzy over a funeral would sound wrong and . It is informal, a little old-fashioned, and heard more in American and British family talk than in writing. A close cousin in feeling is flap ('in a flap') in British English.
慌亂、手忙腳亂、緊張兮兮（帶點「大驚小怪」的調侃意味）
組成Origin uncertain. American, first recorded around 1935. Some connect it to an old slang tizzy meaning a sixpence coin; others think it was simply shaped by dizzy, which it echoes in both sound and meaning.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
tizzynoun/ˈtɪzi/
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A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.
- to be in a tizzy
- That Todd Evergreen. The reclusive, twenty-two-year-old, overnight billionaire whose very existence has put us all in a tizzy.
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archaicslangA sixpence; a tester.
- Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
- Tadpole holds out, but between threats and cajoleries at length sells half for one shilling and sixpence — about a fifth of its fair market value; however, he is glad to realize anything, and, as he wisely remarks, "Wanderer mayn't win, and the tizzy is safe anyhow."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。