"make someone's blood boil" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make someone's blood boil.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes someone's blood boil [present, singular, third-person], making someone's blood boil [participle, present], made someone's blood boil [participle, past], made someone's blood boil [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's blood boil}} make someone's blood boil (third-person singular simple present makes someone's blood boil, present participle making someone's blood boil, simple past and past participle made someone's blood boil)
  1. (idiomatic) To cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: make someone's blood run cold Translations (cause a person to feel angry): 使某人火冒三丈 (shǐ mǒurén huǒmàosānzhàng) (Chinese Mandarin), saada jonkun sappi kiehumaan (Finnish), saada jonkun veri kiehumaan (Finnish), insupporter (French), exaspérer (French), beurrer la raie [informal] (French), casser les couilles [vulgar] (French), prendre le chou [colloquial] (French), pomper le dard [colloquial] (French), jmds. Blut in Wallung geraten lassen (German), ख़ून खौलना (xūn khaulnā) (Hindi), довести́ до бе́лого кале́ния (dovestí do bélovo kalénija) [perfective] (Russian), доста́ть (dostátʹ) [colloquial, perfective] (Russian), få någons blod att koka (Swedish), kumukulo ang dugo (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

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