Meaning of hair-on-fire | Babel Free

Definitions

Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make⟳ noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.”

“[T]he most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger.”

“I’ve made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think⟳ the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think⟳ every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the precursor to an alien invasion.”

“This race⟳ [between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court] wasn’t the only contest of the night that suggested that Democrats are hair-on-fire to vote⟳.”

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