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.
- 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