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Hot under the collar   /hɑt ˈəndər ðə kˈɑlər/   Listen
Hot under the collar

adjective
1.
Very angry.






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"Hot under the collar" Quotes from Famous Books



... dad," I cut in, getting a bit hot under the collar myself, "by all the laws of nature, there must have been a time when you were twenty-five years old and cut a little swath of your own. And, seeing you're as big as your offspring—six-foot-one, ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower

... see you hot under the collar—eh?" The Doctor began digging out his pipe and filling it, without speaking. The Captain asked: "What's gone wrong? Politics ain't ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White



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