Hair-on-fire

Quick meaning: Hair-on-fire is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic.

Meaning

(idiomatic) Impassioned; eager; wild; crazy; rage-filled; frantic.

Example Sentences

[T]he most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger.

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.

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.

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.

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Related dictionary entries include afire, all-fire, fevered, white-hot, blazing, fervid.

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