get hot under the collar

get hot under the collar

To become angry. I'm sorry I got hot under the collar just then, I have a hard time hearing criticism about my novel. I know you get hot under the collar at times like this, but please, stop yelling at me!
See also: collar, get, hot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

get hot under the collar

If you get hot under the collar, you get annoyed about something. Biographers tend to get a little hot under the collar when conversation turns to the invasion of privacy. Note: You can also say that someone is hot under the collar. Judges are hot under the collar about proposals to alter their pension arrangements.
See also: collar, get, hot
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • hot under the collar
  • hot under the collar, to be
  • get hot
  • go like hot cakes
  • hot for (something)
  • diggety
  • diggity
  • hot diggety
  • Hot diggety!
  • (I've been) keeping cool