mad as a hornet 的定义
- Also, mad as hell or hops or a wet hen. Very angry, enraged as in Mary was mad as a hornet when her purse was stolen, or Upset? Dan was mad as hell, or The teacher was mad as a wet hen. The use of mad for “angry” dates from about 1300, but these similes are of much more recent vintage. The allusions to a hornet, which can launch a fierce attack, and hell, with its furious fires, are more obvious than the other variants. Mad as hops was first recorded in 1884 and is thought to have been the writer's version of hopping mad; mad as a wet hen, first recorded in 1823, is puzzling, since hens don't really mind water.
mad as a hornet 近义词
等同于 raging
mad as a hornet 的近义词 33 个
- enraged
- furious
- seething
- stormy
- turbulent
- bent
- blustering
- fuming
- incensed
- infuriated
- raving
- rough
- angry
- at boiling point
- bent out of shape
- beside oneself
- blowing a gasket
- blowing one's top
- blustery
- boiling mad
- boiling over
- fit to be tied
- frenzied
- going ape
- irate
- on the warpath
- rabid
- ranting and raving
- raving mad
- seeing red
- tempestuous
- throwing a fit
- wild
mad as a hornet 的反义词 7 个
更多mad as a hornet例句
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- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
- All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
- Then she won, and went half mad with the joy and excitement, but the joy didn't last long.
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