| 词组 | mad as a wet hen |
| 释义 | Idiom (as) mad as a wet hen Theme: ANGER angry. (Folksy.)Bob was screaming and shouting—as mad as a wet hen.What you said made Mary mad as a wet hen. (as) mad as a wet henEnraged; extremely or inconsolably angry. My dad was mad as a wet hen after I crashed his car. You make me as mad as a wet hen with the way you carry on sometimes, you know that? mad as a wet henExtremely angry. The source of this expression is a bit puzzling, since hens, while not waterfowl, are not distressed by wetness. Conjecture has it that it comes from a farmer’s tossing a bucket of water at hens and thereby causing a flapping uproar. The term appears in Money in the Bank (1942) by that noted purveyor of clichés, P. G. Wodehouse. A more logical variant is mad as a hornet. H. L. Mencken referred to it as a familiar simile in The American Language (1919), and it continues to be used. |
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