Anger and Annoyance - Animals

Question 1

a blazing row

Answer 1

gwałtowna kłótnia

Question 2

to blow your top

Answer 2

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

Question 3

to be cross

Answer 3

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. /

Question 4

to be crotchety

Answer 4

marudny, kapryśny, zrzędliwy

Question 5

to drive sb up the wall

Answer 5

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

Question 6

furious

Answer 6

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

Question 7

galling

Answer 7

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/

Question 8

to get on sb’s nerves

Answer 8

to annoy sb

Question 9

to heated argument

Answer 9

a bad argument in which people are very angry

Question 10

to hit the roof

Answer 10

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

Question 11

to be indigant

Answer 11

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

Question 12

infuriate

Answer 12

doporowadzać do wściekłości/szału

Question 13

irate

Answer 13

very angry

Question 14

to irriate

Answer 14

to annoy

Question 15

to be livid

Answer 15

to be very angry (not used before a noun)

Question 16

to be in no mood for/to sth

Answer 16

nie być w nastroju do…

Question 17

an outburst

Answer 17

a sudden explosion of anger / wybuch

Question 18

a quick temper

Answer 18

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

Question 19

to be sick and tried of sth/sb

Answer 19

to be annoyed and fed up with sth/sb

Question 20

to be fed up with

Answer 20

mieć czegoś dosyć

Question 21

to throw a tantrum

Answer 21

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

Question 22

to be touchy

Answer 22

to be bad-tempered and easily made angry

Question 23

to be up in arms about sth

Answer 23

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

Question 24

the black sheep of the family

Answer 24

sb considered to be a failure an embarrassment by relatives

Question 25

to be as blind as a bat

Answer 25

to have poor eyesight

Question 26

you can… till the cows come home but it won’t

Answer 26

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 /

Question 27

a dark horse

Answer 27

sb who people konow very little about

Question 28

to be dogged by sth

Answer 28

sth bad keeps causing you trouble and it will not go away

Question 29

for donkey’s years

Answer 29

(informal) for a very long time

Question 30

to duck

Answer 30

to avoid sth which is going to hit you by lowering your head

Question 31

it is like water of a duck’s back for sb

Answer 31

sth does not affect you because you are accustomed to it. / His criticism are like watoer off a duck’s back /

Question 32

fishy

Answer 32

suspicious / his proposal sounds a bit fishy, so I don’t think we should trust him /

Question 33

to hound sb

Answer 33

to persistently follow sb (used in connection with the press) / The paparazzi hounded her wherever she went.

Question 34

the lion’s share

Answer 34

the biggest part /julie inhertied the lion’s share of Uncle Fester’s fortune./

Question 35

to rabbit on (about sth)

Answer 35

to talk for a long time in a boring way

Question 36

ratty

Answer 36

bad-tempered/easily made angry / sorry i was so ratty this morning. I didn;t get much sleep last night

Question 37

to have a whale of a time

Answer 37

(informal) doskonale się bawić

Question 38

a wild goose chase

Answer 38

a search for sth tha one is unlikely to find

Question 39

to worm yout way out of sth

Answer 39

to avoid doing sth you do not want to do / he wormed his way out of the work again /