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What is another word for hot under the collar?

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Angry, resentful, or embarrassed

Agitated or stressed

Wildly excited or uncontrolled due to worry or fear

Adjective

Angry, resentful, or embarrassed

bent out of shape

burning with excitement

foaming at the mouth

blue in the face

in high dudgeon

as cross as two sticks

beside yourself

not best pleased

ill-humoured^UK

hot and bothered

with all guns blazing

gnashing one's teeth

overcome with anger

at boiling point

at daggers drawn

in a filthy temper

beside yourself with rage

as black as thunder

out of countenance

in a towering rage

at end of one's rope

rubbed the wrong way

extremely angry

having got out of bed on the wrong side

like a bear with a sore head

on a short fuse

having got out of bed the wrong side

easily offended

ready to be tied

uncommunicative

confrontational

evil-intentioned

down in the mouth

unaccommodating

apt to fly off the handle

perversely irritable

having a fit of the sulks

bundle of nerves

with a long face

got up on wrong side of bed

carrying a chip on your shoulder

passive-aggressive

huffy irascible

easily frightened

easily agitated

ready for a fight

have chip on shoulder

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“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.”

Adjective

Agitated or stressed

hot and bothered

discombobulated

all of a dither

like a cat on a hot tin roof

on pins and needles

in a state of agitation

in a state of nerves

like a cat on hot bricks

all of a lather

all of a doodah

a bundle of nerves

bundle of nerves

in a cold sweat

bricking oneself

beside yourself

waiting for the axe to fall

waiting with bated breath

at the end of your tether

feeling anxious

like a fish out of water

champing at the bit

all of a flutter

fearfully anticipating

apprehensively expecting

anxiously waiting

nervously awaiting

having cabin fever

mentally unsettled

with your back to the wall

tossing and turning

on the qui vive

emotionally charged

tearing one's hair out

at the end of one's rope

with one's back up against the wall

with bated breath

having butterflies in the stomach

having cold feet

having a funny feeling

having stage fright

hot-and-bothered

throwing a wobbly

out of your mind

hot under collar

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Adjective

Wildly excited or uncontrolled due to worry or fear

hot and bothered

beside yourself

in a cold sweat

at the end of your tether

out of one's mind

not knowing what to do with oneself

out of one's wit

tearing one's hair out

emotionally charged

like one possessed

like a chicken with its head cut off

out of your mind

driven to distraction

out of one's wits

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