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in high dudgeon
Idioms and Phrases
Furiously, resentfully, as in He stormed out in high dudgeon . This term is the only surviving use of the word dudgeon , whose origin has been lost. [c. 1600]Example Sentences
But now they're in high dudgeon because they refuse to accept a world where a Black woman has the right to make accusations against a rich white man.
So why has the most recent adaptation — Carrie Cracknell’s spicy version of “Persuasion,” now streaming on Netflix — sent so many viewers to their fainting couches, heaving in high dudgeon?
In high dudgeon, I asked what the point was of taking the time to go to their site, and paying more, when I could have had the same experience at the Stanford health center, effectively for free?
He fled at once, and the minute it was well, “Up with the bonnets of bonnie Dundee,” she slipped away to return no more till the young gentleman departed in high dudgeon.
And slamming the door in Meg’s face, Aunt March drove off in high dudgeon.
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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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