angry enough to chew nails

angry enough to chew nails

Seething with anger; furious to the point of becoming irrational. I tell you, I was angry enough to chew nails when they told me they'd given the grant to that hack, Dr. Warner. The boss was angry enough to chew nails after he heard we'd lost the Jefferson account.
See also: angry, chew, enough, nail
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • mad enough to chew nails
  • mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets
  • chewed
  • chew
  • bite off more than one can chew, to
  • chew out
  • chew someone out
  • bite one's nails
  • bite your nails/fingernails
  • bite (one's) nails
References in periodicals archive
People are fed up and angry enough to chew nails so please stop these diplomacies and dual personality's actions as enough is enough because if it's not stopped then I agree with Abdullah Dayo that a revolution is coming.
Failure of democracy in Pakistan
He pretended to be angry enough to chew nails. I could hear his voice tremble with rage as he told the Murfreesboro sheriff and his men that I had better sense than to come on that car again after what I'd done.
"Make My Getaway": The Blues Lives of Black Minstrels in W. C. Handy's Father of the Blues