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单词 to get one's irish up
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to get one's Irish up
5. colloquial (originally U.S.). Fieriness of temper; passion, anger, rage. Chiefly with up, esp. in to get one's Irish up. Cf. paddy n.2 5.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [noun] > angry temper
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1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life iv. 30 Her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) 217 My friends say that my Irish is getting up, meaning, I am getting angry.
1872 H. W. Bigler Bigler's Chron. of West (1962) 25 This raised Colonel Smith's Irish a little.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 80/1 Iry; Irish, E. and N., passion; anger; rage; fury.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind ix. 195 A delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up.
1949 R. Harvey Curtain Time vii. 73 But George's Irish was up.
1972 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 23 June 1/4 ‘I got my Irish up,’ he said, ‘and here's a man that's going to fight back.’
1997 Neon Sept. 39/1 If someone tries to corral me to do something I don't want to do, it gets my Irish up.
extracted from Irishadj.adv.n.
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