hot under the collar

1. 1.

   very angry

   Similarangry

   colloquialism

Questions about hot under the collar

What does hot under the collar mean?

hot under the collar means "very angry".

Is hot under the collar a common word?

hot under the collar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.