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Definition of Seeing red

1. Noun. A state of irritation or annoyance.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seeing Red

Literary usage of Seeing red

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1822)
"In the former case, seeing red, seeing blue, and seeing violet, may arise ; in the latter case, seeing red, seeing yellow, and seeing orange, may arise from ..."

2. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1822)
"In the former case, seeing red, seeing blue, and seeing violet, may arise ; in the ... In either case, seeing red may arise. the latter case, seeing red, ..."

3. Salvage by Owen Seaman (1909)
"... two following themes do not represent the author's own views or experience, but those of a person of strong anti-militarist tendencies.] i.—seeing red ..."

4. Go, Get 'em!: The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette by William Augustus Wellman (1918)
"... CHAPTER XII seeing red IN air fighting, it has become almost axiomatic that battles come in bunches, and, as though to bear out the truth of this theory ..."

5. Go, Get 'em!: The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette by William Augustus Wellman (1918)
"... CHAPTER XII seeing red IN air fighting, it has become almost axiomatic that battles come in bunches, and, as though to bear out the truth of this theory ..."

6. The Religion of Old Glory by William Norman Guthrie (1919)
"CHAPTER III ON seeing red AND THE CRY OF CRIMSON NOW that we know what stripes are, we will consider the special meaning they acquire, over and above their ..."

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