het up

Example Sentences

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"It's not rational behaviour - I can't explain why we get so het up."

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2021

“What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018

BTW, we are not as het up about Halloween as Americans, it's rather more a young kids annual candy gathering event.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2016

While Dortmund's players were getting all het up with the referee, Mats Hummel tried to play the ball back to his goalkeeper from a good way out with a horrendously under-hit back-pass.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2013

“Me and Smoke and Beelzebub’s middlin’ comf’table in the kitchen,—and it saves wood; but I’ll start the front-room stove and things’ll get het up in no time.”

From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert