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Jimmy Hung
2021-09-18 01:09
Fighting mad adjective phrase
If you say that someone is fighting mad, you mean that they are very angry.
They are fighting mad at their neighbors who keep making noise.
I'm fighting mad at new restrictions.
She got fighting mad at him.
To complain that something is unfair or illegal.
Suddenly become crazy or very angry or lose control
To provoke the anger of someone
Used to express your displeasure
This late-nineteenth-century term is of American origin. “If any other country’s ruler had expressed himself with equal moral ponderosity, wouldn’t the population have gone twice as fighting-mad as ours?” wrote William James in an 1896 message.
Do you see anything wrong?
The idiom is used to say that someone is stupid, unthinking, or inattentive.
When I tell them anything, they look at me like the lights are on, but nobody's home.
