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a rush of blood

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a (sudden) rush of blood (to the head)
if you have a rush of blood to the head, you suddenly feel very excited or very angry, and do or say something silly Thomson was sent off for head-butting Gray in a rush of blood to the head.
See also: blood, rush


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That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected Tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
He felt a rush of blood to his head and first went pale and then suddenly flushed.
 
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