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like a bear with a sore head
vs
mad as a bear with a sore head
like a bear with a sore head
prep
Very irritable; bad-tempered.
mad as a bear with a sore head
adj
Very angry.
How often have the words
like a bear with a sore head
and
mad as a bear with a sore head
occurred in a corpus of books?
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