angry enough to chew nails
- angry enough to chew nails
mad enough to chew nails (and spit rivets) & angry enough to chew nails & mad enough to spit nails
Inf. Fig. very angry, as if to be able to bite through metal nails. •
I am mad enough to chew nails! Who took my checkbook?
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Her sudden tirade made him angry enough to chew nails.
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He stomped in, mad enough to chew nails and spit rivets.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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