rip-snorting mad
- idiom
- Informal
:
furioso
- He became rip-snorting mad when he saw the damage to his new car.
Examples
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If you keep lying to her, she'll be rip-snorting mad in no time.
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The coach was rip-snorting mad after the team lost by a single point.
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Don't make her rip-snorting mad!
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She was rip-snorting mad when she found out about the betrayal.
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She was rip-snorting mad when she discovered that someone had stolen her phone.
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The coach was rip-snorting mad after the team lost the championship game.
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He became rip-snorting mad when he found out that his colleague had taken credit for his work.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling very annoyed or upset
238
3.0
Very angry and ready to shout or complain
197
8.6
Very angry or annoyed
138
1.3
Very excited and unable to stay calm
27
4.1
Feeling very angry and shocked because something seems unfair
23
5.3
Very angry and showing it
19
5.5
Very angry and hard to calm
6
8.6
So angry that you cannot speak or act calmly
1
4.8
Feeling very angry and likely to shout or lose control
1
4.5
Feeling very angry because someone treated you unfairly
1
8.4
Feeling very angry or annoyed
1
4.8
Feeling very angry
1
3.9
Very strong and intense, often violent and out of control
1
9.8
Very angry or upset
1
9.9
Very angry and acting without thinking
Very angry and likely to act violently
Very angry and unable to control your words or actions
Feeling very angry and upset
Feeling extremely angry and acting wildly
Very angry and unable to stay calm
Feeling very angry and showing it
Very angry and ready to do something extreme
Feeling very angry and annoyed
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
rip-snorting + mad
The base meaning 'angry' is directly supplied by 'mad', which a B1 learner would know, but 'rip-snorting' is a dialectal/informal intensifier whose components ('rip', 'snort/snorting') do not transparently compose to mean 'extremely'. The intensifying, idiomatic nature of 'rip-snorting' is unpredictable without exposure, so learners can infer anger but not the exact degree or idiomatic flavor from the parts alone.
Etymology
The idiom rip-snorting mad may come from the image of something that rips and snorts like a wild animal—loud, violent and hard to control. That's why it now means being very 'angry'.