on the warpath

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on the warpath

  1. (idiomatic) Very angry or upset and eager for confrontation.
    • 1932 June 6, “Religion: Churches v. Council”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 2010-10-27:
      Last year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report guardedly approving Birth Control. [] [M]any Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath.
    • 2006 October 11, Colin Brown, “Fears grow for waterways as canal jobs are cut”, in The Independent[2]:
      Boating enthusiasts, walkers and others who enjoy relaxing by canals were on the warpath last night after British Waterways announced plans to cut 180 staff.
    • 2010 November 11, Helen Pidd, Mark Sweney, Tania Branigan, “Taking Spooks seriously: Beijing on the warpath over BBC spy drama”, in The Guardian[3], →ISSN:
      But BBC executives say they could never have predicted the latest programme to send Chinese officials on the warpath: the corporation's far-fetched spy drama Spooks.

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