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like a bear with a sore head

like a bear with a sore head prepositional phrase: very irritable; bad-tempered.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) Very irritable; bad-tempered.

Synonyms of like a bear with a sore head

Questions about like a bear with a sore head

What does like a bear with a sore head mean?
Like a bear with a sore head means very irritable; bad-tempered.
What part of speech is like a bear with a sore head?
Like a bear with a sore head is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like a bear with a sore head in the dictionary

  1. Likasi
  2. likasite
  3. like
  4. like a bag of ferrets
  5. like a bat out of hell
  6. like a bear with a sore head
  7. like a bee in clover
  8. like a big dog
  9. like a bitch
  10. like a bitch on heat
  11. like a blue-arsed fly

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