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Sep 14, 2023 · Learn what "hot under the collar" means and how to use it in different contexts. Find out the origin, synonyms, examples, and pop culture references of this idiom.
To be upset, agitated, angry. The heat of anger has been noted since ancient times, and it often manifests itself in a flushed, warm face and neck. The precise expression here has been used since the late nineteenth century, when high collars were still in fashion for men.
Adjective It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. The baked potatoes were too hot to handle with our bare hands. We worked all afternoon in the hot sun. The chicken was fried in hot oil. Your forehead feels hot. I think you might have a fever. I was feeling hot and tired.
Used since around 1900. The word collar in this idiom refers to the part of a piece of clothing that goes around the neck so that the idiom alludes to one’s neck feeling hot with anger or embarrassment, or generally to the heat of anger.
Judges are hot under the collar about proposals to alter their pension arrangements.
Hot under the collar definition: . See examples of HOT UNDER THE COLLAR used in a sentence.
