hopping mad

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hopping mad

1. (idiomatic) Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.

   He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.

   • 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     "And you hit him? dear old Father Bhaer?" […]
     "I was hopping mad at the time, and thought I shouldn't mind a bit, rather like it perhaps. But when I'd hit uncle one good crack […] I couldn't go on. […] I felt so mean."

   • 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “chapter 8”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:

     Dora wouldn't help me make pies, cause she was afraid of messing her clo'es and that made me hopping mad.

   • 1941 September 15, “The Press: End of a White House Friendship”, in Time, retrieved 5 December 2018:

     The biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" — the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President — was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed it in.

   • 2004 November 2, Joe Sharkey, “When a Pat-Down Seems Like Groping”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 December 2018:

     Rhonda L. Gaynier, a New York lawyer, is hopping mad because, she says, getting on an airplane these days means being groped by a stranger.