sulfurarse

sulfurarse

► verbo pronominal

1 familiar figurado to blow one's top, lose one's rag

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VPR * (=enojarse) to get riled *, see red, blow up *

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verbo pronominal (fam) to blow one's top (colloq)

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= get + (all) worked up, get + (all) worked up (about), get + hot under the collar, be in a tizz(y), get in(to) a tizz(y).

Ex. I'm not sure if it actually worked or if I was just so excited about getting high that I got all worked up.

Ex. Ordinary people can sit around and get morally worked up about the evil of drugs the way they once got worked up about the 'red menace'.

Ex. She is quick to get hot under the collar, but once the problem is ironed out she forgets it entirely.

Ex. The shipping industry is understandably in a tizzy, as the implications of the new norms are sinking in.

Ex. Britons, on the other hand, get in a tizzy an average four times daily.

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verbo pronominal (fam) to blow one's top (colloq)

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= get + (all) worked up, get + (all) worked up (about), get + hot under the collar, be in a tizz(y), get in(to) a tizz(y).

Ex: I'm not sure if it actually worked or if I was just so excited about getting high that I got all worked up.

Ex: Ordinary people can sit around and get morally worked up about the evil of drugs the way they once got worked up about the 'red menace'.

Ex: She is quick to get hot under the collar, but once the problem is ironed out she forgets it entirely.

Ex: The shipping industry is understandably in a tizzy, as the implications of the new norms are sinking in.

Ex: Britons, on the other hand, get in a tizzy an average four times daily.

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sulfurarse [A1 ]

v pron

(fam); to blow one's top (colloq), to boil over (colloq)

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■sulfurarse vr fam (enojarse) to blow one's top, to lose one's temper

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vpr

Fam [encolerizarse] to get mad;

¡no te sulfures! don't get mad!

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sulfurarse

v/r fig fam

blow one’s top fam