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make one's blood boil
Idioms and Phrases
Enrage one, as in Whenever Jim criticizes his father, it makes my blood boil . Although this term did not appear in print until 1848, the term the blood boils , meaning “one gets angry,” dates from the 1600s.Example Sentences
When you consider her refusing a decent, advantageous marriage, and then becoming sentimental at her time of life, it’s enough to make one’s blood boil.”
To see these fellows giving themselves military airs when they take care never to get within gunshot of the enemy, it is enough to make one's blood boil, Mr. Hartington.
Now, I am going to relate something that will make one's blood boil with indignation and the cold sweat stand out with the clamminess of death, but what I tell you is true.
Oh, there is enough here to make one's blood boil!
The story was enough, too, to make one’s blood boil.
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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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