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单词 to get a person's hackles up
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to get a person's hackles up
d. Chiefly in plural. In various phrases indicating that a person is, or has been made, angry, irritated, frightened, or (in earlier use) excited. Frequently in to make a person's hackles rise, to get a person's hackles up.
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1843 J. Mills Stage Coach II. ix. 117 Smooth your hackles, governor... Don't come the frothy. What's put you out?
1852 ‘Scrutator’ Lett. Managem. Hounds xxi. 232 This polite message..had the effect of raising my hackles a little.
1881 C. Phillipps-Wolley Sport in Crimea 76 As my hackles were now fairly up, I crept and ran as well as I could after my wounded game.
1916 B. Atkey Smiler Bunn Brigade 153 That's what Germany's up against—Great Britain, France, Russia, half the world, in fact, with their hackles up.
1933 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 18 Sept. 8/5 Stories..that make the flesh to creep and the hackles to rise.
1935 N. M. Gunn Highland Night iii. 30 At the least opportunity they got fighting like this. Indeed the very sight of him raised her hackle.
1993 S. Marshall Nest of Magpies (1994) v. 38 His voice was..tinged with enough condescension to make my hackles rise.
2015 Express (Nexis) 6 June 12 A blinkered assumption that led them to behave in a manner which undoubtedly got the public's hackles up.
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