mad as a wet hen

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mad as a wet hen (not comparable)

  1. (US, colloquial, simile) Very angry; furious.
    • 1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:
      My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.