het up

Example Sentences

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So why has the Chanel version gotten people so het up?

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2021

"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

There’s no need to get quite so het up about it.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2015

“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