get (one's) claws out

1. Literally, of an animal, to prepare for an attack or for defense by protracting or displaying its claws. I hate my neighbor's cat, it always gets its claws out when I go near it.

2. By extension, to become particularly aggressive, especially in preparation for a confrontation. (Most often said of a woman.) Jenny had her claws out after she found out Mary had been spreading rumors about her in school.

词组	get (one's) claws out
释义	get (one's) claws out get (one's) claws out 1. Literally, of an animal, to prepare for an attack or for defense by protracting or displaying its claws. I hate my neighbor's cat, it always gets its claws out when I go near it. 2. By extension, to become particularly aggressive, especially in preparation for a confrontation. (Most often said of a woman.) Jenny had her claws out after she found out Mary had been spreading rumors about her in school. See also: claw, get, out Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: (one's) claws are showing claw one's claws are showing wake (up) to (something) wake to tail between one's legs, with one's waken waken to (something) gotten showing
随便看	pulled out of (one's) ass pull faces (at someone) pull for pull for (someone or something) pull in pull in ears pull in front of pull in front (of someone or something) pulling power pull in (one's) belt (a notch (or two)) pull in (one's) ears pull in (one's) horns pull in one's horns pull in the reins pull into pull into a place pull in(to) (some place) pull in your horns pull it out of the hat pull it together pull jive pull leg pull/make faces/a face pull my finger pull no punches