get one's dander up

[get one's dander up] or [get one's Irish up] {v. phr.}

To become or make angry.

* /The boy got his dander up because he couldn't go to the store./

* /The children get the teacher's dander up when they make a lot of noise./

Compare: BLOW A FUSE.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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