to foam at the mouth
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8.1
- idiom
- Informal
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- Or do you just sit in your car, foaming at the mouth in fury until someone moves?
- began foaming at the mouth
Ferrell foaming at the mouth, screaming, yelling banshees.
- Ferrell foaming at the mouth, screaming, yelling banshees.
- Yeah, they're foaming at the mouth that you have these and you don't care.
- Of all the words I know, there's no word that makes many of my colleagues more emotional and prone to foam at the mouth than when I'm just about to say consciousness.
- The people at the Wall Street Journal who are foaming at the mouth to try and convict us of something then been an editorial headline that I was disagreeing.
Examples
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She used to foam at the mouth.
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I'm foaming at the mouth.
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I was, as you might imagine, foaming at the mouth.
Blog text (1) -
Parents were foaming at the mouth.
Blog text (1) -
You were screaming and foaming at the mouth.
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Look at you, ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth.
Fiction book (1997) -
He'd be foaming at the mouth like a goddamned mad dog.
Fiction book (1990) -
It is like they are foaming at the mouth with their eyes bugging out.
Blog text (34) -
Of all the words I know, there's no word that makes many of my colleagues more emotional and prone to foam at the mouth than when I'm just about to say consciousness.
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He was so angry during the argument that he started to foam at the mouth with rage.
Synonyms
187
3.5
To suddenly show a strong feeling, often anger
39
5.9
Cry or shout loudly and without control
22
7.5
Suddenly become very angry
18
4.4
To show sudden strong anger or upset, often like a child
9
3.3
Suddenly say something or make a loud sound
8
2.4
To suddenly start laughing loudly and not be able to stop
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8.6
To be extremely angry and unable to control oneself
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4.7
To be so full of strong feeling or excitement that you show it clearly
2
5.9
A strong show of feeling, often in speech or writing
1
8.1
To suddenly say something angry without warning
To suddenly become very angry
To become very angry or upset in a way people notice
To become suddenly very angry and upset in a dramatic way
Have a childish angry outburst when you do not get your way
Show sudden anger, often by becoming tense in the face or voice
Show so much excitement that you cannot hide it
Antonyms
How Angry
- Informal
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8.1
- Informal
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7.5
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3.7
114
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'foam' and 'mouth' to evoke a visible physical symptom, so a learner who knows those words can often infer a sense of extreme, uncontrolled agitation or anger from the image. However, the use is metaphorical and can be applied figuratively (not always literal foaming), so the relation is motivated but not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The idiom foam at the mouth comes from a vivid image: animals with white foam around their mouth when they are very sick or very angry. That's why the phrase means 'to show extreme or uncontrolled anger or excitement'.