spit nails

(American & Australian informal) also spit chips/tacks (Australian informal)

to speak or behave in a way that shows you are very angry He was spitting nails when he saw what had happened to his car.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cirillo	chee-REEL-lo	Italian
Marisa	mah-REE-zah (Italian), mah-REE-sah (Spanish), mə-RIS-ə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Wilda	WIL-də	English
Jozafat	yaw-ZAH-faht	Polish
Miervaldis	-	Latvian
Selig	-	Yiddish