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make one's blood boil make (one's) blood boilTo cause one to feel extremely angry. The fact that he embezzled money from the company for years just makes my blood boil.See also: blood, boil, makemake one's blood boilEnrage one, as in Whenever Jim criticizes his father, it makes my blood boil. Although this term did not appear in print until 1848, the term the blood boils, meaning "one gets angry," dates from the 1600s. See also: blood, boil, makemake one's blood boil, toTo enrage someone. The term the blood boils has meant anger since the seventeenth century. The precise cliché appears in Thomas Macaulay’s History of England (1848): “The thought of such intervention made the blood, even of the Cavaliers, boil in their veins.”See also: blood, make |