Today Learning - Idiom being angry

Couch potato : someone being lazy and not doing anything.
Copycat : someone who doing the same thing as someone else.

A. BEING ANGRY 

I'm FED UP (to the back teeth) with trying to live on such small wage.

I'm at my WITS END trying to keep things in order.
(wits= intelligence, brains)

I've HAD IT UP HERE with this organisation!

Informal used about other people :

Your boss will HAVE/THROW A FIT when he finds out you forgot to reply to those letters.
(go off the deep end / go spare/ do his nut / blow a fuse)


Less informal described other people's anger and are based on the world blood.

If someone's blood is up, they are very angry or excited and may react in a violent way.

If you are after someone's blood, you want to catch them in order to hurt or punish them.

If you are out of blood, you are determined to find someone to attack or blame for something bad that has happened. 

B. ANGRY RELATIONSHIPS

Meaning: making someone very angry or sometimes very bored.

Idiom: drive someone up the wall / drive/send someone round the bend/twist

Example:
The neighbor's loud music every night is driving me up the wall.

His lack of consideration is driving me round the twist.

Meaning: make someone annoyed.

Idiom: rub someone up the wrong way / get/put someones's back up / ruffle someone's feathers 

Example:
Jill always manages to say something to rub her father up the wrong way.

Roger put his sister's back up by saying she would never be a good driver.


Meaning: do or say something that makes a lot of people angry or worried.

Idiom: Put/send the cat among the pigeons

Example: Danny put the cat among the pigeons by suggesting that the company might have to make some redundancies.

Meaning: be so angry with each other that they refuse to speak to each other

Idiom: not be on speaking terms

Example: The haven't been on speaking terms for years although neither can remember what they first quarreled about.

Meaning: tell someone how angry you are with them

Idiom: give someone an earful / give someone a piece of mind 

Example:
The old lady gave the children an earful for nearly knocking her over.

He'll give the boys a piece of mind if he catches them in his garden.