het up

Example Sentences

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“What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018

BTW, we are not as het up about Halloween as Americans, it's rather more a young kids annual candy gathering event.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2016

While Dortmund's players were getting all het up with the referee, Mats Hummel tried to play the ball back to his goalkeeper from a good way out with a horrendously under-hit back-pass.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2013

Barack Obama has been het up about electronic record keeping since the day he was elected.

From Time • Mar. 14, 2013

An' she got so het up oveh her hawd luck thet she lost her memory an' couldn't remember thet she was owin' him anything when they come ter settle up.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank