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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.
Workers may have been getting hot under the collar in the recent heatwave, but most Manchester bosses want to keep them firmly buttoned up.
Colombia's foreign minister issued an apology to stop Brazil getting too hot under the collar.
Motorists got hot under the collar when the indicator lenses misted, obscuring the view of the pressure reading.
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.
Another subject which appears to keep making everyone hot under the collar is industrial fisheries.

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