B2idiominformalemotionsIELTS-friendly
make someone's blood boil
USUK
to make someone extremely angry
Stronger than 'annoy'. Often about injustice or bad behaviour in public.
In context
People who throw rubbish into the lake make my blood boil.
It made his blood boil to see animals kept in tiny cages.
More idioms about emotions
- a bitter pill to swallowan unpleasant fact or situation that is hard to accept
- a bundle of nervesvery nervous and worried
- a chip on your shouldera lasting anger because you feel you were treated unfairly in the past
- a knot in your stomacha tight, sick feeling in your body caused by worry or fear
- a lump in your throata tight feeling in your throat because you are so moved that you might cry