hot under the collar
hot under the collar adjective: angry; agitated.
Adjective
hot under the collar (comparative hotter under the collar, superlative hottest under the collar)
- Angry; agitated.
- "Oh, cut it," said Steve wearily. " . . . I don't want to listen to drivel like that."
"Drivel?" repeated the other, puzzled. " . . . I don't see why you need to get so hot under the collar.1914, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 21, in Left End Edwards - "What do you mean, sir?" cried the old boy, getting purple. . . .
"Now don't get hot under the collar. I'm only asking. I've a right to know."1919, P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg”, in My Man Jeeves
- "Oh, cut it," said Steve wearily. " . . . I don't want to listen to drivel like that."
- Sexually aroused.
- Synonyms:
- hot and bothered
hot under the collar meaning in Malayalam
hot under the collar in Malayalam
- angry, annoyed, irate
- കോപിഷ്ഠനായ, കുപിത, കോപി, കോപിത, അമർഷ, അമർഷിത
Examples of hot under the collar in a sentence
- A controversial history textbook has IFP members hot under the collar and has resulted in two protest marches being scheduled for KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.2008 May 14, “IFP angry at 'history distortion'”, in Independent Online, South Africa, retrieved 30 Sep 2010:
- The prime minister had earlier sought to row back from the Savile claims on Thursday, saying “a lot of people have got very hot under the collar”.2022 February 3, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson’s policy chief quits over PM’s ‘scurrilous’ Savile remark”, in The...
Synonyms of hot under the collar
Forms of hot under the collar
| comparative | hotter under the collar |
|---|---|
| superlative | hottest under the collar |
Questions about hot under the collar
- What does hot under the collar mean?
- Hot under the collar means angry; agitated.
- What is hot under the collar in Malayalam?
- Hot under the collar in Malayalam is കോപിഷ്ഠനായ, കുപിത, കോപി. See Hot under the collar meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use hot under the collar in a sentence?
- A controversial history textbook has IFP members hot under the collar and has resulted in two protest marches being scheduled for KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.
- What part of speech is hot under the collar?
- Hot under the collar is an adjective.
Words near hot under the collar in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot under the collar (page history and authors); hot under the collar (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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