hopping mad

hopping mad

Very angry. Mom was hopping mad after I dented her brand-new car. John's always hopping mad once he starts losing. Tiffany will be hopping mad when she finds out that her so-called friends started that awful rumor about her.

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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

hopping mad

Fig. very angry. Joe got hopping mad when the salescerk was rude to him. The student's practical jokes made the teacher hopping mad.

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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

hopping mad

Enraged, furious, as in I was hopping mad when they left my name off the list. This expression conjures up an image of jumping up and down with rage. [Colloquial; early 1800s]

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ˌhopping ˈmad (about/over something)

(informal) extremely angry about something: Anne was hopping mad about the sales figures.

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hopping mad

mod. very angry; angry and jumping up and down. I was hopping mad about the broken window.

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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

hopping mad

Extremely angry. The term implies that one is enough enraged to jump up and down or to hop about; it originated in the early nineteenth century in the United States. One of Seba Smith’s humorous political letters stated, “I had a long talk with the General . . . he was hopping mad” (The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, 1833).

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