| 单词 | to make blood boil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (someone's) blood boil h. to make (someone's) blood boil: (colloquial) to anger or infuriate (someone). ΚΠ 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iii. sig. G2v O I haue drunck in poison at mine eares, which makes my bloud boile with vnquenched flames. 1681 J. Phillips Char. Popish Successour Compleat 27 The lust of Inheritance makes the Blood of the Impatient Heir boil high for possession. 1741 W. Erskine tr. A. F. Prévost d'Exiles Mem. & Adventures Marquis de Bretagne & Duc d'Harcourt III. 350 The Sight of them made all my Blood boil in my Veins. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 230 The thought of such intervention made the blood, even of the Cavaliers, boil in their veins. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xv. 248 A sight which made his blood boil. 1922 C. E. Mulford Bring me his Ears xix. 309 Tom and his friends witnessed scenes that made their blood boil. 2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxviii. 295 He's such a pompous sod, he makes my blood boil. < as lemmas |
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