Meaning of red mist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Uncontrollable rage, anger sufficient to prevent clear thinking.
   also, attributive, figuratively
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, mist.

Examples

“What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally.”

“Slowly the red mist faded from before Tarzan’s eyes. Things began to take form—he was regaining the perspective of civilized man.”

“On the face of it, this appears to have fit into a pattern that seems familiar with Vettel's errors in recent times. In stressed moments, a sort of red mist seems to descend that reduces his capacity for rational thinking.”

“In that little office, seated before that wretched Do No Bend envelope, the red mist came down, and it wasn't a mist, it was a torrent.”

“Bellingham felt the red mist come down. He had been booked at the end of the first half after stamping into Dmitrijs Zelenkovs. Which only made his full-blooded slide challenge into Jurkovskis risky to say the least.”

“That red-mist moment prompted [James] Blake to dig properly into the workings of the music industry.”

“the red mists of the morning”

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