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hopping mad
- (idiomatic) Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.
He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.
1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Little Men: , Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:"And you hit him? dear old Father Bhaer?" […]
"I was hopping mad at the time, and thought I shouldn't mind a bit, rather like it perhaps. But when I'd hit uncle one good crack […] I couldn't go on. […] I felt so mean."
1941 September 15, “The Press: End of a White House Friendship”, in Time, retrieved 5 December 2018:The biggest press news in Washington last week was that the "White House gang" — the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President — was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed it in.
2004 November 2, Joe Sharkey, “When a Pat-Down Seems Like Groping”, in New York Times, retrieved 5 December 2018:Rhonda L. Gaynier, a New York lawyer, is hopping mad because, she says, getting on an airplane these days means being groped by a stranger.