Anger and Annoyance - Animals Flashcards

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a blazing row

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gwałtowna kłótnia

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to blow your top

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to lose your temper and become very angry / when she told him, he blew his top and began shouting/

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to be cross

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to be a little angry (often used when speaking to children) / You’d better do what your teacher says, or she will get very cross. /

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to be crotchety

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marudny, kapryśny, zrzędliwy

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to drive sb up the wall

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to annoy sb /that constant drilling noise outside my house is driving me up the wall

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furious

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very angry / when they told him, he was furious and left the room/

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galling

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sth that is annoying because it seems unfair or wrong / the most galling thing about his winning all the money is that he was already a millionnaire/

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8
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to get on sb’s nerves

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to annoy sb

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9
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to heated argument

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a bad argument in which people are very angry

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to hit the roof

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to lose yout tempeer and become very angry / he hit the roof when he saw my report card/

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11
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to be indigant

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to be very angry because you think sth is wrong or unfair

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infuriate

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doporowadzać do wściekłości/szału

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13
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irate

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very angry

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14
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to irriate

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to annoy

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15
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to be livid

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to be very angry (not used before a noun)

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16
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to be in no mood for/to sth

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nie być w nastroju do…

17
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an outburst

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a sudden explosion of anger / wybuch

18
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a quick temper

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if you have a quick temper, you lose yout temper quickly and very easily

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to be sick and tried of sth/sb

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to be annoyed and fed up with sth/sb

20
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to be fed up with

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mieć czegoś dosyć

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to throw a tantrum

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to start kicking, crying and shouting (generally used for children)

22
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to be touchy

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to be bad-tempered and easily made angry

23
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to be up in arms about sth

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to be very angry and ready to protest (used to describe group reaction)

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the black sheep of the family

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sb considered to be a failure an embarrassment by relatives

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to be as blind as a bat
to have poor eyesight
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you can... till the cows come home but it won't
yu can do sth fot a bery long time but it won't change anything / you can ask till the cows come home, but i won't tell you /
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a dark horse
sb who people konow very little about
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to be dogged by sth
sth bad keeps causing you trouble and it will not go away
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for donkey's years
(informal) for a very long time
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to duck
to avoid sth which is going to hit you by lowering your head
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it is like water of a duck's back for sb
sth does not affect you because you are accustomed to it. / His criticism are like watoer off a duck's back /
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fishy
suspicious / his proposal sounds a bit fishy, so I don't think we should trust him /
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to hound sb
to persistently follow sb (used in connection with the press) / The paparazzi hounded her wherever she went.
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the lion's share
the biggest part /julie inhertied the lion's share of Uncle Fester's fortune./
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to rabbit on (about sth)
to talk for a long time in a boring way
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ratty
bad-tempered/easily made angry / sorry i was so ratty this morning. I didn;t get much sleep last night
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to have a whale of a time
(informal) doskonale się bawić
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a wild goose chase
a search for sth tha one is unlikely to find
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to worm yout way out of sth
to avoid doing sth you do not want to do / he wormed his way out of the work again /