make someone's blood boil

present singular third person makes someone's blood boil · participle present making someone's blood boil · participle past made someone's blood boil · past made someone's blood boil

1. idiomaticTo cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.

   The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil.

   1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 23, in The Voyage Out

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   Dove says it makes her blood boil to see the way the poor young gentleman is treated.

   1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 21, in Love and Life

   Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil.

   1922, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in Man Size

   Yet, I also know how intimidating it is to have a tailgater behind; it makes my blood boil.

   1989 June 25, Jacquie Herz, “Beware: Teen-Age Driver, Nervous Mother”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jul 2011

   A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil".

   2008 Aug. 21, Joe Klein, "Where's Obama's Passion?, Time