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make one's blood boil
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Discover More
Example Sentences
The accounts that appear in the country papers daily are enough to make ones blood boil.
From Project Gutenberg
This brief description is enough to make ones blood boil, but it was only a small item in the terrible tragedy.
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