make one's blood boil

Idioms  

1. Enrage one, as in Whenever Jim criticizes his father, it makes my blood boil. Although this term did not appear in print until 1848, the term the blood boils, meaning “one gets angry,” dates from the 1600s.

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make one's blood boil

You may talk of coolness; but 'tis enough to make one's blood boil to be served in such a way.

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Now, I am going to relate something that will make one's blood boil with indignation and the cold sweat stand out with the clamminess of death, but what I tell you is true.

From Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light by Bernard Fresenborg

Those Milburns," remarked Mrs Murchison, "are enough to make one's blood boil.

From The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Oh, there is enough here to make one's blood boil!

From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

To see these fellows giving themselves military airs when they take care never to get within gunshot of the enemy, it is enough to make one's blood boil, Mr. Hartington.

From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty