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hot and bothered

adjective as in upset

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That kind of fantasy gets certain people hot and bothered: Maybe we can get rid of democracy just by saying so!

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That just seemed to make him more hot and bothered.

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A couple of defeats in Euro 2024 warm-up games has got plenty of fans all hot and bothered over Scotland's prospects at Euro 2024.

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Back in the 1850s the new study of thermodynamics—how, in part, temperature affects the way objects behave—had physicists hot and bothered.

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On the one hand, it's easy to imagine dogs getting just as hot and bothered as people do - lashing out in the only way they know how.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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