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单词 hot under the collar
释义

hot under the collar

informal Angry, resentful, or embarrassed.He has already mischievously implied that only hacks get hot under the collar about his revamping of Waugh because ‘Evelyn Waugh was a journalist too, of course, and so the press are protective of him.’...
  • To be honest, I didn't really watch Crossroads during its Seventies heyday, although I do remember getting rather hot under the collar when a post-Gregory's Girl Dee Hepburn joined the cast in 1987.
  • With candidates, journalists, activists, police and counters packed into a pokey conference suite opposite the stadium, things were getting a little hot under the collar as results streamed in from across the county.

Synonyms

angry, annoyed, furious, irate, infuriated, incensed, enraged, cross, in a temper, irritated, put out, fed up, aggrieved
informal aggravated, peeved, miffed, mad, riled, hacked off, peed off
British informal cheesed off, brassed off, narked, ratty, shirty
North American informal teed off, ticked off, sore, bent out of shape
Australian/New Zealand informal snaky, crook
vulgar slang pissed off
literary ireful
See parent entry: hot
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