Idioms for Anger

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See red: To become intensely angry.

Up in arms: A person or a group is angry, and they are complaining about something.

Ballistic: Reacting with extreme anger or rage.

Bite someone's head off: To respond to someone with extreme anger and aggression. 

Hot under the collar: To feel or show visible signs of anger or irritation. 

Fly off the handle: To become very angry and lose control of one's emotions. 

Blow your top: To lose your temper. 

Blow a fuse: To become extremely angry or lose one's temper suddenly. 

Have a bone to pick: To be angry with someone and want to talk to them about it. 

Get off one's back: Expresses annoyance and ask them to stop finding fault or criticizing you.

Have a short fuse: Easily becoming angry or irritated. 

Hit the roof/ceiling: To become extremely angry, often to the point of shouting or yelling. 

Throw a fit: To become very angry or agitated.

At one's wit's end: To be so angry or frustrated that you don't know what to do anymore. 

Enraged: The person is extremely angry.

A flea in one's ear:  Makes you are angrily reprimanded or humiliated.

Boil: Makes you really angry.

Steaming mad: Extremely angry. 

Chip: Being easily angered or feeling resentful. 

Fit of anger: Astrong feeling of anger that is difficult to control and can lead to uncontrolled outbursts of rage.

Bear with a sore head: The person is in a bad mood and gets annoyed over little things. 

On the warpath: To be in an angry or aggressive mood, often seeking confrontation.

In a towering rage: Extremely angry and possibly uncontrollable. 

Have steam coming out of one's ears: To be extremely angry. 

Bite the bullet: To endure a painful or difficult situation. 

Spit nails: To be extremely angry, often to the point of wanting to retaliate. 

Raise Cain: To cause a disturbance or make trouble; to express anger or frustration.

Be spitting mad: To be extremely angry. 

Flip one's lid: To lose your temper completely.

Chew the scenery: To express anger or frustration in a dramatic or exaggerated manner.

Chew someone out: To reprimand or scold someone angrily.

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