| 词汇 | cross as a bear |
| 词源 | cross as a bear. “Major Smalleye war as made as a beaten b’ar,” wrote Robert Bird in Nick of the Woods (1837). The still common Americanism for “quite cross or mad” goes back at least a decade earlier and is probably even older. See a bear for work. |
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