fighting mad
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Finally, writers may be mild-mannered, but everyone likes to get fighting mad once in a while.
From Economist • Sep. 21, 2017
On May 12, 1979, a Reds pitcher named Frank Pastore was fighting mad.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2012
But with Belgium fighting mad and Union Miniere agreeably handing over $25 million in advance tax payments to "independent" Katanga, Lumumba's Congo was flat broke.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lulu objected, however, when his governess made him eat soap as a minor punishment, and he got fighting mad when tangled in royalism's red tape.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He was fighting mad, looking from face to face, his red head bristling, but no one answered his challenge.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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