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To be or become extremely angry: “When Roger realized that he had been duped, he started to see red.”

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In the UK, COTTON CANDY is more commonly known as…

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The Daily Pic: Around 1758, Jean-Claude Duplessis designed pink vases that made the masses see red.
Let Them Eat Peanuts|Blake Gopnik|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
As Ebony magazine put it in a 1993 article, a black man choosing a white woman causes black women to “see red.”
Is Marriage for White People?|Jessica Bennett|September 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Choire Sicha on the show's new cool quotient, plus see red-carpet fashions.
Newcomers Invade Emmys|Choire Sicha|August 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
We began to see red barns and comfortable farmhouses, still set wide apart, though, for the farms are large.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail|Ezra Meeker

Ermine ees brave man—he eese see red, an' he wiell try eet eef he do hang.
John Ermine of the Yellowstone|Frederic Remington
He was getting right over them now, he thought; he could see red flashes along the horizon.
The Onslaught from Rigel|Fletcher Pratt
The effect of scarlet upon animals, the bull for instance, is well known—to use the familiar term, it causes one to "see red."
The Human Aura|Swami Panchadasi
Wouldn't it be wonderful to see red-hot rock come right out of the top of the mountain and fall down all around it!
The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy|Eulalie Osgood Grover

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see red

Become very angry, as in I saw red when I learned they had not invited Tom and his family. The precise allusion in this term is not known, but it probably refers to the longstanding association of the color red with passion and anger. [Colloquial; c. 1900]

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