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make someone's blood boil en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.
    • Dove says it makes her blood boil to see the way the poor young gentleman is treated. 1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 21, in Love and Life:
    • The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil. 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 23, in The Voyage Out:
    • A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil". 2008 Aug. 21, Joe Klein, "Where's Obama's Passion?, Time
    • Yet, I also know how intimidating it is to have a tailgater behind; it makes my blood boil. 1989 June 25, Jacquie Herz, “Beware: Teen-Age Driver, Nervous Mother”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jul 2011:
    • Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil. 1922, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in Man Size:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
makes someone's blood boil Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
making someone's blood boil Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made someone's blood boil Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made someone's blood boil Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

blood-boiling · one's blood runs cold

Translations (17)

fr beurrer la raie (cause a person to feel angry) · tl kumukulo ang dugo (cause a person to feel angry) · cmn 使某人火冒三丈 (cause a person to feel angry) · sv få någons blod att koka (cause a person to feel angry) · vi sôi bầu máu nóng (cause a person to feel angry) · ru доста́ть (cause a person to feel angry) · vi sôi máu (cause a person to feel angry) · fi saada jonkun veri kiehumaan (cause a person to feel angry) · fr casser les couilles (cause a person to feel angry) · fr insupporter (cause a person to feel angry) · fr exaspérer (cause a person to feel angry) · fr prendre le chou (cause a person to feel angry) · fr pomper le dard (cause a person to feel angry) · ru довести́ до бе́лого кале́ния (cause a person to feel angry) · fi saada jonkun sappi kiehumaan (cause a person to feel angry) · hi ख़ून खौलना (cause a person to feel angry) · de jemandes Blut in Wallung geraten lassen (cause a person to feel angry)