on the warpath

Definitions

Very angry or upset and eager for confrontation.

idiomatic

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Examples

“Last⟳ year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report⟳ guardedly approving Birth Control⟳. […] [M]any Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last⟳ week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath.”

“Boating enthusiasts, walkers and others who enjoy⟳ relaxing by canals were on the warpath last⟳ night after British Waterways announced plans to cut⟳ 180 staff.”

“But BBC executives say⟳ they could never have⟳ predicted the latest programme to send⟳ Chinese officials on the warpath: the corporation's far-fetched spy drama Spooks.”

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