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What does hot under the collar mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic, of a person) Angry, agitated.
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Nothing bothers me more than to read the paper and see where some young person was killed for running a stop sign because some jabroni got hot under the collar and started chasing him at high speeds.
If the thought of minestrone with pesto dumplings gets you hot under the collar, then there's a bowl with your name on it.
As she became hot under the collar of her polyester blouse, the smell of mothballs became over-powering and I started to sneeze.
He got a perverse enjoyment out of seeing people undertake him on quiet stretches of motorway and wondered why they got so hot under the collar.
They will either stimulate your interest or leave you feeling hot under the collar.
I was rather hot under the collar, and gave an unexpurgated account of what had happened.

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