mad as a wet hen en · ADJ
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(US, colloquial, not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very angry; furious.
My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.
1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:
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