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0 If a difficult situation or negative emotion boils over, it cannot be controlled any more and people start to argue or fight.
1 If a liquid that is being heated boils over, it rises up and flows over the edge of the pan:
2 (of a liquid) to rise up in a cooking container and flow over the edge
Union members’ frustrations boiled over in demonstrations this weekend.