on the warpath

English

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Prepositional phrase

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.

Synonyms

• enraged, furious

Translations

very angry or upset

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 準備開火／准备开火 (zhǔnbèi kāihuǒ), 正在作战 (zhèngzài zuòzhàn)

• Finnish: sotajalalla
• French: (colloquial) furax (fr), furibond (fr), (informal) en rogne (fr), sur le pied de guerre (fr)
• German: auf dem Kriegspfad, auf Kriegsfuß
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: dühös (hu)
• Irish: ar buile
• Italian: sul piede di guerra, sul sentiero di guerra
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: na wojennej ścieżce
• Portuguese: em pé de guerra (pt)
• Russian: на тропе́ войны́ (na tropé vojný)
• Spanish: en pie de guerra
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• war footing