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Blood Boil Hot In The Loop 468 Make One’s Extremely Angry

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Idiom MAKE (ONE’S) BLOOD BOIL
Definition to cause someone to become extremely angry
Examples
  1. I had told Fred never to borrow my car without permission again, but he did it anyway. That makes my blood boil.
  2. The secretary could hardly believe what one of the office workers had said about her. She was angrier than she could ever remember being before. It made her blood boil.
Cross-Refs

Compare to: hopping mad; hot under the collar; boiling point

Extra Info

The expression suggests that when one is very angry, one’s blood gets so hot that it boils.

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