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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(idiomatic) Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic..
Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.
[T]he most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger.
I’ve made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the precursor to an alien invasion.
This race [between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel, for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court] wasn’t the only contest of the night that suggested that Democrats are hair-on-fire to vote.
Use hair-on-fire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hair-on-fire means (idiomatic) Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.
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