(as) mad as a hornet 成语
mad as a hornet
stir up a hornet
stir up a hornet's nest
Idiom(s): stir up a hornet's nestTheme: TROUBLE
to create trouble or difficulties. (Informal.)
• What a mess you have made of things. You've really stirred up a hornet's nest.
• Bill stirred up a hornet's nest when he discovered the theft.
Hornets' nest
A hornets' nest is a violent situation or one with a lot of dispute. (If you create the problem, you 'stir up a hornets' nest'.)mad as a hornet|hen|hop|hops|hornet|mad|mad as a w
adj. phr., informal In a fighting mood; very angry. When my father sees the dent in his fender, he'll be mad as a hornet. Bill was mad as hops when the fellows went on without him. Mrs. Harris was mad as a wet hen when the rabbits ate her tulips.stir up a hornet's nest|hornet|hornet's nest|nest|
v. phr. To make many people angry; do something that many people don't like. The principal stirred up a hornet's nest by changing the rules at school.hornet
hornetsee mad as a hornet; stir up a hornets' nest.
stir up a hornets' nest
stir up a hornets' nestMake trouble, cause a commotion, as in Asking for an audit of the treasurer's books stirred up a hornets' nest in the association. This metaphoric term, likening hornets to angry humans, dates from the first half of the 1700s.
(as) mad as a hornet
Enraged; acutely or inconsolably angry. My dad was mad as a hornet afterwards I comatose his car. You accomplish me as mad as a hornet with the way you backpack on sometimes, you apperceive that?Learn more: hornet, mad*mad as a hornet
and *mad as a wet hen; *mad as hellvery angry. (*Also: as ~. Use hell with caution.) You accomplish me so angry. I'm as mad as a hornet. What you said fabricated Mary mad as a wet hen. Those terrorists accomplish me mad as hell.Learn more: hornet, madmad as a hornet
Also, mad as hell or hops or a wet hen . Very angry, affronted as in Mary was mad as a hornet back her purse was stolen, or Upset? Dan was mad as hell, or The abecedary was mad as a wet hen. The use of mad for "angry" dates from about 1300, but these similes are of abundant added contempo best (1800s, aboriginal 1900s). The allusions to a hornet, which can barrage a affronted attack, and hell, with its bent fires, are added accessible than the added variants. Mad as hops was aboriginal recorded in 1884 and is anticipation to accept been the writer's adaptation of hopping mad; mad as a wet hen, aboriginal recorded in 1823, is puzzling, back hens don't absolutely apperception water. Learn more: hornet, madmad as a hornet
mainly AMERICANIf you are as mad as a hornet, you are acutely angry. I'll bet he's as mad as a hornet about this accomplished affair. Note: A hornet is a ample wasp. Learn more: hornet, mad
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