- lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom)
- fig. seething in anger
- raise one's hackles
Characters
- 怒 (怒): anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous
- 发 (發): to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- 冲 (沖): (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with
- 冠 (冠): surname Guan
Resources
- Wiktionary: 怒发冲冠
- MDBG: 怒发冲冠
- Examples with 怒发冲冠 on Tatoeba
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