hot and bothered
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That kind of fantasy gets certain people hot and bothered: Maybe we can get rid of democracy just by saying so!
From Salon
A couple of defeats in Euro 2024 warm-up games has got plenty of fans all hot and bothered over Scotland's prospects at Euro 2024.
From BBC
Back in the 1850s the new study of thermodynamics—how, in part, temperature affects the way objects behave—had physicists hot and bothered.
From Scientific American
On the one hand, it's easy to imagine dogs getting just as hot and bothered as people do - lashing out in the only way they know how.
From BBC
“I was getting hot and bothered and I just couldn’t really cope with it at all,” he said.
From BBC
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