mad as a hornet
Example Sentences
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Just tell Mrs. Newlywed that you weren’t feeling well, which is true-ish: You were as mad as a hornet — and may have put someone’s eye out with an angry toss of the rice.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2010
Right in the midst of their lark who should appear but old Donkin himself, mad as a hornet.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was just mad as a hornet because I knew what was wrong with the car and they wouldn’t let me do anything about it.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Gibbon said, “He lost half his strength. Most of them got taken prisoner. He’s mad as a hornet, lookin’ for somebody to blame it on.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
It was only a slight wound, but the Russian was as mad as a hornet, and he vowed he would get square some time.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer
