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foam at the mouth
Idioms and Phrases
Be extremely angry, as in She was foaming at the mouth over the judge's ruling . This hyperbolic term uses the verb foam in the sense of “froth at the mouth,†a usage generally applied to animals such as horses and dating from about a.d. 950. [1400s]Example Sentences
Russian state TV was practically foaming at the mouth, screaming about striking Washington, drowning London, and turning America into "nuclear ash."
She also told the BBC her cat needed to be put down after straying into the police forensic tent during the search and began "convulsing and foaming at the mouth".
Ms Benson said her son started foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood, so she decided to try to bring him to hospital herself.
Mr Parsons, of the South Western Ambulance Service, said when he checked Ms Skripal she had a “slow heart rate†and was “foaming at the mouthâ€.
The partner of Novichok poisoning victim Dawn Sturgess found her laying fully clothed in the bath “convulsing and foaming at the mouth,†an inquiry has heard.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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