mad enough to eat nails

Seethingly angry; furious to the point of becoming irrational. I tell you, I was mad enough to eat nails when they told me they'd given the grant to that hack, Dr. Warner. The boss was mad enough to eat nails after he heard we'd lost the Jefferson account.

mad enough to eat nails

mod. (see also eat nails.) After we got home, she was mad enough to eat nails.

See also: eat, enough, mad, nail

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

mad enough to spit nails
mad enough to chew nails
mad enough to kick a cat
mad enough to spit
mad enough to spit tacks
mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets
angry enough to chew nails
tough as nails
(as) tough as nails
be (as) hard as nails

References in periodicals archive

After narrowly losing this vote, the senior senator, who chairs the committee that funds the zoo, said he was "mad enough to eat nails," which may or may not produce a quicker death than that suffered by two endangered red pandas that ate rat poison scattered about their National Zoo enclosure in January by cut-rate exterminators.

Home fires burning: around the wartime capital. (Letter From Washington)

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释义	mad enough to eat nails mad enough to eat nails Seethingly angry; furious to the point of becoming irrational. I tell you, I was mad enough to eat nails when they told me they'd given the grant to that hack, Dr. Warner. The boss was mad enough to eat nails after he heard we'd lost the Jefferson account. See also: eat, enough, mad, nail Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. mad enough to eat nails mod. (see also eat nails.) After we got home, she was mad enough to eat nails. See also: eat, enough, mad, nail McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: mad enough to spit nails mad enough to chew nails mad enough to kick a cat mad enough to spit mad enough to spit tacks mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets angry enough to chew nails tough as nails (as) tough as nails be (as) hard as nails References in periodicals archive After narrowly losing this vote, the senior senator, who chairs the committee that funds the zoo, said he was "mad enough to eat nails," which may or may not produce a quicker death than that suffered by two endangered red pandas that ate rat poison scattered about their National Zoo enclosure in January by cut-rate exterminators. Home fires burning: around the wartime capital. (Letter From Washington)
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