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hot under the collar

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hot under the collar (informal)
if someone is hot under the collar, they are angry. He got very hot under the collar when I suggested that he might be mistaken. The issue of waste disposal is getting a lot of people hot under the collar.
See also: collar, hot
hot under the collar
angry. The criticisms seemed unfair to me and I got pretty hot under the collar when I thought about them later.
See also: collar, hot
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On May 2, Oakland's Jason Kendall charged Lackey on the mound, but that wasn't why the right-hander was so hot under the collar.
LACKEY IS ONE-DERFUL PITCHER LIMITS ATHLETICS TO A SINGLE HIT IN ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
By October, the weather will cool, but the steamy issues making tax executives hot under the collar will persist.
Scottsdale affords hospitable climate for TEI's 61st Annual ... by Tax Executive
Hot Under the Collar, published by the Anglican Book Centre, holds up a mirror to Anglicans and the issues they felt passionate about from 1955 to 2005.
Book chronicles Journal readers' letters to editor by Anglican Journal
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