mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets

mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets

Seethingly angry; furious to the point of becoming irrational. I tell you, I was mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets when they told me they'd given the grant to that hack, Dr. Warner. The boss was mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets after he heard we'd lost the Jefferson account.
See also: and, chew, enough, mad, nail, rivet, spit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • mad enough to chew nails
  • mad enough to spit nails
  • mad enough to eat nails
  • mad enough to spit
  • mad enough to spit tacks
  • mad enough to kick a cat
  • angry enough to chew nails
  • I could (just) spit
  • chew
  • chewed