mad as a wet hen

adjective

Very angry; furious.

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Meanings

adjectivemad as a wet hen (not comparable)
  1. UScolloquialnot comparablesimileVery angry; furious.

    My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.

    1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
angry as a wet henwild as a wet hen
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