blood-boiling

English[edit]

Extremely angry; furious.
- 2005, Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey in Search of the Perfect Wave‎^[1], →ISBN:
  Just as our combined anticipation was starting to build to a blood-boiling crescendo, the swell lines disappeared from underneath us, intercepted by the coastline of approaching islands to our north.
- 2015, Andrew Kaufman, Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times‎^[2], →ISBN, page 6:
  The bearded Russian sage who inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King couldn't resist a blood-boiling bayonet fight, or a good duel with an old writer friend who had insulted him.