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hot under the collar
vs
mad as a bear with a sore head
hot under the collar
adj
Angry; agitated.
Sexually aroused.
mad as a bear with a sore head
adj
Very angry.
How often have the words
hot under the collar
and
mad as a bear with a sore head
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)