informal

if someone is hot under the collar, they are angry.

He got very hot under the collar when I suggested that he might be mistaken.

The issue of waste disposal is getting a lot of people hot under the collar.

• the highways and byways
• the holy of holies
• the home straight
• the home stretch
• the hot ticket
• the house from hell
• the icing on the cake
• the ins and outs
• the ins and outs of
• the ins and outs of something
• the Ivy League
• the jewel in the crown
• the joker in the pack
• the joke's on
• the joke's on someone
• the jury is out
• the jury is still out
• the kiss of death
• the knives are out
• the land of milk and honey
• the last gasp of
• the last gasp of something
• the last minute
• the last of the big spenders
• the last straw