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slow burn
noun
- a gradual building up of anger, as opposed to an immediate outburst:
I did a slow burn as the conversation progressed.
slow burn
noun
- a steadily penetrating show of anger or contempt
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Idioms and Phrases
Slowly increasing anger. It is often put as do a slow burn , meaning “gradually grow angrier,” as in I did a slow burn when he kept me waiting for three hours . The burn in this idiom comes from burn up in the sense of “make furious.” The term was first cited in 1938 and was closely associated with comedian Edgar Kennedy.Discover More
Example Sentences
But the real drama would develop during long slow burn that came next.
Alex Edwards, Founder of Natural High, agrees with this slow-burn philosophy.
The Americans has given us both a chilly pleasure and a slow burn in the proximity of its antagonists.
Quincy described his show as a “slow burn” with a “nice, melancholy sweetness to it like Charlie Brown.”
There are “not a lot of Rwandas, but a lot of slow-burn horrific conflicts,” she said.
The blows were weak, for I was still dazed; but they served, together with the slow burn of my anger, greatly to steady me.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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