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Flare-up   /flɛr-əp/   Listen
noun
Flare-up  n.  
1.
A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute. (Colloq.)
2.
A sudden bursting into flame; a flaring.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... Dr. T.D. Anderson at Edinburgh in January 1892. At its greatest brightness it attained to about the fourth magnitude. By April it had sunk to the twelfth, but during August it recovered to the ninth magnitude. After this last flare-up it gradually ...
— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage
... her best. Anything Fred Thorpe could say on the subject would be bitterly misconstrued. He realized that her conception of the part to play was to make the worst of things instead of the best and snatch what satisfaction she could from a flare-up. That was what Horrocks wanted, of course, but she was past caring, or so it seemed until the sudden change took place after the appearance ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... the Medici had undermined the character of the Florentines. This, their last glorious struggle for liberty, was but a flash in the pan—a final flare-up of the dying lamp. The city was not satisfied with slavery; but it had no capacity for united action. The Ottimati were egotistic and jealous of the people. The Palleschi desired to restore the Medici at any price—some ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... announcements, which are only to be equalled in size by the figures beneath them, are left in a state of pleasing hesitation between 'The Cream of the Valley,' 'The Out and Out,' 'The No Mistake,' 'The Good for Mixing,' 'The real Knock-me-down,' 'The celebrated Butter Gin,' 'The regular Flare-up,' and a dozen other, equally inviting and wholesome liqueurs. Although places of this description are to be met with in every second street, they are invariably numerous and splendid in precise proportion to ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... melted,' he explained to Simon, 'the paraffin would run into the charcoal, and there would be a magnificent flare-up.' ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett


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