Meaning of spit feathers | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To feel very thirsty.
   idiomatic
2. To feel very angry; to sputter angrily.
   idiomatic

Examples

“Where is that sodding drink? I'm spitting feathers.”

“I was just about spitting feathers. My throat was so dry and sore that I could barely feel my own tongue.”

““I've always liked camomile tea, and I'm spitting feathers after walking all the way over here. Nothing quenches the thirst like camomile tea.””

“He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos and spitting feathers that Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback.”

“Yesterday's heresy—the sort of thing that made orthodox theologians spit feathers—becomes today's tourist attraction.”

“Spartan education was entirely geared to the sublimation of the individual to the state, the disintegration of the ego and its reorientation as an agent of Spartan civilization. Proponents of child-centred education would spit feathers, I imagine.”

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