Routledge states that the phrase “blow your top” didn’t catch on in American usage until the mid-1940s. The dictionary traces the first print appearance of "blow your top" to a blues song in 1946 and "blow your stack" to 1947. The Three Stooges comedy film “Fifi Blows Her Top,” released in 1958, demonstrates that the phrase was in common use by the late 1950s.