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Seeing red   /sˈiɪŋ rɛd/   Listen
Seeing red

noun
1.
A state of irritation or annoyance.  Synonyms: huff, miff.






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"Seeing red" Quotes from Famous Books



... first time in his life Peter had an idea of what seeing red really means. But he mastered it by an effort, saluted without a word, ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

... in a young gentleman of Lowther's standing, but immorality, in Mrs Devitt's eyes, was a horse of quite another colour; anything of this nature acted upon Mrs Devitt's susceptibilities much in the same way as seeing red afreets ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... moment of seeing red similar to many others in his life. For the instant he could more easily have killed Claude than refrained from doing it. That he should so refrain was a matter of course. Naturally! He still kept a hold on common sense. He would ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... Press was seeing Red. What business had the Red Flag in a city like Winnipeg at all? If anywhere in Canada, why not in the industrial, big-interest East—in ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino



Words linked to "Seeing red" :   vexation, annoyance, botheration, irritation



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