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Stop...Saying you're angry. Here are
20 plus other ways of describing
anger in English.

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G'day, you mob! Welcome back to my
channel Aussie English. I'm Pete,
your host and this is the number one
place for anyone wanting to build
confidence, speak fluently and take
their English to the next level. In
today's video, I'm going to teach you
more than 20 different words, phrasal
verbs and expressions to describe
when you're angry.

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I used a bunch of these in my most
recent podcast episode on Aussie
English, which you can download below
in the description if you would like
to hear how I use these expressions
in natural day to day English. And
make sure you stick around to the end
of the video, guys, because I have a
few bonus slang terms to describe
when you're angry.

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Alright, let's go through a few
adjectives.

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Number one: cross. 'Mum got really
cross when we ate one of their
biscuits.' Number two: furious. 'We
were furious when someone stole our
bikes'.

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Number three: irate. 'The librarian
was irate that I was eating in the
library'. Number four: irritated.
'The old man was really irritated
that the neighbour was playing music
loudly.'.

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Number five: livid. 'The guard was
livid that someone stole a statue.'.

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Number six: outraged. 'We were
outraged that someone flogged our TV,
they stole it!'

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And number seven: seething. 'Oh...
She was seething when her boyfriend
dumped her.'.

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Alright, let's take it up another
notch and do some phrasal verbs.

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Now, guys, these are pretty much all
phrasal verbs that will be followed
by AT SOMEONE, right? Because you get
angry at someone, it is in their
direction. The anger is directed at
them, ok?

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Number one: to blow up at someone. 'I
blew up at my mate for denting my
car.' Number two: to flip out. 'She
flipped out at us when we forgot her
birthday.' Number three: to freak out
at someone. 'They freaked out when we
spilt the expensive wine.'

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Number four: to go off at someone.
'We went off at our kids when they
drew on the wall.'.

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Number five: to piss someone off.
This is to cause someone to be angry.
'When I dropped Mom's plate she was
pissed off'. 'I pissed off my mom
when I dropped her antique plate.'.

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Number six, the last one here: to get
or to be pissed off at someone. So,
'Mom got pissed off at me for
breaking the plate', 'I pissed her
off, she got pissed off at me'.

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Alright, guys, let's take a pause,
take a break, you know, chill out.
Let that sink in. Learn those
synonyms, I want you to take a pause,
hit pause on the video, come on, do
it, go down into the comments section
and try and use one of these phrasal
verbs or adjectives in a sentence, so
that it sinks into your head, right?
Tell me when the last time you were
furious was or tell me what pisses
you off, ok? See you in the comments.

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Alright. You're back. Let's get into
the expressions.

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Number one: to blow a gasket. To blow
a gasket. That's like part of an
engine in a car and it just blows up.
'I'm going to blow a gasket if she
lies to me, I'll blow a gasket'.

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Number two: to drive someone crazy.
Now this one has a lot of different
synonyms, guys. There are a lot of
different ways to say to drive
someone crazy. They're all
interchangeable, ok? So, you could
say 'people who eat loudly really
drive me crazy. People who eat loudly
really drive me nuts. They drive me
mental, they drive me bonkers, they
drive me up a wall'. There you go,
that was five for the price of one.

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Number three: to flip your lid. To
flip your lid. 'If you spoil the end
of this book that I'm reading, I'm
going to flip my lid.'.

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Number four: to get bent out of
shape. To get bent out of shape. 'If
you eat her chocolate, she's going to
get bent out of shape.'.

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Number five: to grind your gears. To
grind someone's gears. 'When someone
takes my parking spot at work, it
grinds my gears.'

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Number six: to have a meltdown.
Right? Like a nuclear power plant, I
guess, it melts down, you know, if
something goes wrong, Fukushima. If
you get angry, you have a meltdown.
Could be upset as well. 'When I
didn't get the job, I had a
meltdown'.

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Number seven: to hit the ceiling.
Right? You're so angry, you hit the
ceiling. 'When I got home late as a
kid, dad would always hit the
ceiling.'. You could also say 'hit
the roof.'.

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Number eight: to lose your cool. To
lose your cool, and this can be to
lose your cool at someone. 'The
tennis player lost his match, and he
also lost his cool.'.

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'To make someone's blood boil'.
Imagine that! Your blood inside your
body starts boiling, that'd be
horrible. Yeah. To make your blood
boil, to make you angry. 'When my
husband doesn't do the dishes, it
makes my blood boil'.

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And the very last one, guys, the very
last one: to see red. Right? Imagine
you're so furious that the blood just
rises up in your eyes and all you can
see is red, right? Red, the colour
red. To see red. 'The day the
neighbour backed into my car I saw
red.

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Alright, guys. Now, for the bonus
section I'm going to teach you some
Australian English slang. These are
some great terms that you can use to
describe being angry, ok? Let's get
into it.

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To be pissed. Alright. So, this is
obviously a rude and informal way of
saying to be angry. 'I'm so pissed!
My footy team lost on the weekend and
I'm pissed', 'It rained while we were
having a barbie and I am pissed'.

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To rage up at someone. Good Aussie
phrasal word. To rage up at someone.
'You shouldn't rage up at people over
nothing'.

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To crack the shits. To crack the
shits. I don't know why we call it
that. To crack this shit, guys. 'My
little sister always cracks the shits
for no reason'. Crack this shit.
That's a good one.

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And last, but not least, guys: to do
your block. 'If we eat Dad's cake,
it'll do his block'.

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Anyway, I'm Pete. Thanks for joining
me and I'll see you soon. Peace.