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rant and rave
Idioms and Phrases
Talk loudly and vehemently, especially in anger, as in There you go again, ranting and raving about the neighbor's car in your driveway . This idiom is a redundancy, since rant and rave mean just about the same thing, but probably survives on account of its alliterative appeal.Example Sentences
"I think I would be unlucky if something was to happen to me, but one has to do something. I can either sit here and rant and rave with my friends on X or on my various WhatsApp groups, or I can go out there and do something."
So when Trump was asked if he planned to comply with court orders I assumed that he would rant and rave about crooked judges and rigged cases as he usually does.
Characters curse and scream, rant and rave.
She caused a stir two years ago when she attended a meeting of the Granbury Independent School Board and condemned conservatives who “rant and rave†about banning books on sexuality and LGBTQ+ themes.
The push for hot mics is a pivot from the cautious Biden campaign, which seemed to fear Trump steamrolling their candidate — and appearing more energetic and forceful — more than than it saw an advantage in letting an elderly man continue to rant and rave when his time was up.
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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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