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red in the face

adj

Etymology

A reference to one's face flushing from embarrassment.

Definitions

  1. embarrassed

  2. excited, outraged

    • On air on Tuesday, [Tucker] Carlson claimed Democrats had shown “hysteria, overstatement, crazed hyperbole, red-in-the-face anger” over his use of the January 6 footage. It was “not outrage”, he said, but “fear. It’s panic.”

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