fire someone with expectations

fire someone with expectations
fire someone with anger & fire someone with enthusiasm & fire someone with hope & fire someone with expectations
Fig. [for someone's words] to fill someone with eagerness or the desire to do something. •

The speech fired the audience with enthusiasm for change.

We were fired with anger to protest against the government.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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