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What does hot under the collar mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic, of a person) Angry, agitated.
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Motorists got hot under the collar when the indicator lenses misted, obscuring the view of the pressure reading.
They will either stimulate your interest or leave you feeling hot under the collar.
Workers may have been getting hot under the collar in the recent heatwave, but most Manchester bosses want to keep them firmly buttoned up.
We pay handsomely for the privilege of being members and we get hot under the collar about its burdensome regulations.
Another subject which appears to keep making everyone hot under the collar is industrial fisheries.
He got a perverse enjoyment out of seeing people undertake him on quiet stretches of motorway and wondered why they got so hot under the collar.

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