亚洲网紅露点

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hackles

/ 藞丑忙办蓹濒锄 /

plural noun

  1. the hairs on the back of the neck and the back of a dog, cat, etc, which rise when the animal is angry or afraid
  2. anger or resentment (esp in the phrases get one's hackles up, make one's hackles rise )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

see raise someone's hackles .
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Example Sentences

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Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.

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Scottish hackles had been raised enough by the suggestion that they - winners of the past four meetings - would be bullied out of the game.

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鈥淚f I were going to tell you one thing that really gets my hackles up, it鈥檚 a persistent weak layer,鈥 said Mace, the avalanche forecaster.

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Adopting a fact checking system inspired by an Elon-Musk-owned platform was always going to raise hackles.

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His current nominee, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, isn't raising as many hackles, despite her threats to arrest prosecutors for enforcing the law against those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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