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Unsuccessful contestants are then forced to exit by attempting to lift the notoriously tricksy, rust-riddled garage door, while successful candidates are allowed to exit using the side door and taken directly on to the O2 Arena stage where they'll perform again in front of thousands of hysterical fans.
Today Cameron adopted a much less hysterical approach and this, plus the dreary predictability of Cameron's Unite jibes, was enough to give Miliband the edge, although it was not very clear cut and Miliband's Pickles quote and Cameron's Reynolds/Benn/Betts quote more or less cancelled each other out.
I suspect now that the "hysterical Italian" label embedded itself deeply into my psyche, forcing a kind of internal sweeping under the carpet to avoid accusations of exaggeration.
At the same time, Britain's largest chicken processor warned against a hysterical response to the FSA findings, arguing a food scare that put shoppers off buying chicken could "consquently damage the UK's food and farming industries".
It would be nice, wouldn't it, to live in a world where the media – tabloid and broadsheet – didn't talk about and to unmarried grown women as if they were hysterical teenagers desperate to be saved by their prince, insane with a need to be married NOW.
I think he is – I haven't seen a really good-looking muscular guy inside … [slightly hysterical nervous titter] his, um, suit.
The Ebola crisis is expected to lop off as much as $6bn off the GDP output of the entire sub-Saharan region in 2015 The borderline hysterical media reaction to the Ebola epidemic – much of it spurred by the unlikely incursion of the virus into the US and UK – can be explained because it dovetails with this familiar narrative.
I cannot remember much of the fortnight following his death except a blur of family, funeral, and being found by the night porter completely hysterical and key-less at half one.
May, the ECHR's leading opponent within government, had long found Grieve an irritant; as far back as 2011, he had dismissed objections like hers to the convention as "hysterical untruths".
One reason I think we should be less hysterical about boat people is that most of them are fleeing the same extremists we dread.
Minutes earlier his makeshift team had surrendered to a seventh straight defeat and he had been forced to retreat deep inside the home dugout during a second half in which stewards permitted two hysterical fans stationed near the technical area to subject him to a cascade of abuse.
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The adjective "hysterical " primarily functions to describe something causing uncontrollable laughter or an extreme emotional state. Ludwig examples show its use in describing both funny situations and intense emotional reactions, affirming its dual nature.
Expression frequency: Very common
