Similar words: under the cover of, under the counter, under the circumstances, blue-collar, white-collar, blue-collar worker, under the sun, under the weather. Meaning: adj. very angry.
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1. He got very hot under the collar when I asked him where he'd been all day.
2. I don't understand why people are getting so hot under the collar about it.
3. Other times people got distinctly hot under the collar.
4. The other customers were almost as hot under the collar as Phyllis,[sentencedict.com/hot under the collar.html] but for very different reasons!
5. But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
6. And people can also get pretty hot under the collar on Central Weekend.
7. Third, people should get hot under the collar when presented with dreary architecture.
8. Glover felt hot under the collar; it would seem that all manner of deranged people were managing to outsmart him.
9. Tie makers, however, were left hot under the collar.
10. Be careful, you are likely to make someone hot under the collar.
11. He became hot under the collar when he realized that he had been cheated.
12. He gets very hot under the collar whenever he hears about cruelty to animals.
13. You don't need to get hot under the collar. He didn't steal your money.
14. Don't get hot under the collar. I didn't mean to offend you.
15. Some of you were getting very hot under the collar about Royals.
16. I get hot under the collar when someone tells me how to run my business.
17. Mary gets hot under the collar if you joke about women drivers.
18. When I suggested he was mistaken he got rather hot under the collar.
19. Read in studio Two leading ice cream manufacturers are getting hot under the collar in a row over trade.
20. A person who becomes angry easily is called a hothead. An angry person's neck often becomes red. We say he is hot under the collar.
21. And the busty Belfast blonde could get Brown all hot under the collar with her antidote agenda to "serious and boring" politics.
More similar words: under the cover of, under the counter, under the circumstances, blue-collar, white-collar, blue-collar worker, under the sun, under the weather, under the table, under the name of, under the aegis of, under the guise of, under the shadow of, under the pretext of, under the guidance of, under the auspices of, water under the bridge, collar, collards, dog collar, collarbone, get under, over-the-counter, put under, sit under, neanderthal, undertone, undertow, undertook, undertake.