🐝 Hornet
"Mad as a hornet"
Meaning
Very angry.
About the hornet
Hornets react aggressively when their nest is disturbed, which is exactly the idiom about provoking a group into trouble.
Example sentence
He was mad as a hornet after missing the bus.
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Which idiom means...
Very angry.
More hornet idioms
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"Mad as a hornet"
Very angry.
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"Bring a hornets' nest about your ears"
To cause a lot of anger or trouble.
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"Blow a hornets' nest wide open"
To reveal a problem that makes many people angry.
HornetIdiom
"Blow a hornets' nest wide open"
To reveal a problem that makes many people angry.
HornetIdiom
"Mad as a hornet"
Very angry.