be cross

“The nice thing about dogs is you can sit them down, you could have a nice long conversation, you could be cross, you could be sad and they just sit looking at you wagging their tail!”

She said: "Everything she did, she did fiercely, whether it be laugh, be cross, whether it was love people or commit to something. She was fierce."

A man has told a jury he cut his girlfriend's throat after he strangled her because he thought people would "be cross" at him.

So we went in and I thought, I've got to take something that they won't be cross about.

If Richard fired her, Mama would be cross, but more than that she would turn that look of disappointment and sadness upon Ophie, and feeling the weight of her mother’s unhappiness upon her skinny shoulders always made Ophie’s belly roil.