| 单词 | as mad as a hornet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas mad as a hornet g. as mad as a hornet North American. ΚΠ 1848 Tioga (Wellsboro, Pa.) Eagle 12 Jan. 1/4 While old Darling, who was mad as a hornet, was gwine to have Doolittle arrested for niggar stealin, right off. 1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. 80 In the familiar simile, as mad as a hornet, it [sc. the word mad] is used in the American sense. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 360 He was as mad as a hornet when he heard how the election went. < as lemmas |
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