Why Is Wilkie Collins A Fit Of Extreme Anxiety?

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~ He was overwrought with anger (distraught/ overwhelmed/ stressed/ nervous/ tense) ~ He asked quite amiably, for a man with murder in his heart and a blood-pressure well above the normal. {PG Wodehouse, Big Money} ~ "I burn with indignation, and I ache with fatigue," was the way Miss Rachel summed it up, "when I think of Franklin Blake." {Wilkie Collins, the Moonstone} --Can you put off having apoplexy for 3 minutes? (A fit of extreme anger; rage / Sudden impairment of neurological function /Getting cross/ outbreak/ outburst/ frenzy/ a paroxysm/ an attack/ a fit/ seizure/ spasm/ a convulsion/ extreme anger/ losing your temper/ fermenting/ control your anger or irritation/ throw a wobbly=‘have a fit of temper or panic’) {Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms} …show more content…

-He was scanning his fermenting relative with some anxiety (To be in an excited or agitated state; seethe {Farlex}/cross/ agitating/ turbulent/ arousing/ inflaming/ bristling/ simmering/ seething/ festering/ smouldering/ provoking/ boiling/ furious/ irate/ incensed/ mad/ enraged/ livid/ cross/ fuming/ apoplectic/ teed off/ very angry/ beside oneself/ hopping mad/ frothing/ foaming/ be furious/ be livid/ boil with rage/ jumping up and down) ~ He had been fermenting steadily from the moment of leaving his sister Vera’s door {PG Wodehouse, Big

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