come in(to) heat
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To be in a state of sexual excitement as a result of a readiness to breed, as of a female animal. Do you hear the stray cat howling and screeching at night? She must have come into heat.
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come in(to) heat
and come in(to) season[for a female animal] to enter into the breeding season. This animal will come into heat in the spring. When did your dog come in season?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.