10 ADVANCED ways to say ANGRY or ANNOYED Advanced English Vocabulary
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english with lucy you might remember
that a couple of weeks ago i uploaded a
video about happy related expressions
expressions and idioms related to
happiness while i was thinking the other
day it’s great to be happy and positive
but it’s also really really important to
know how to express yourself when you’re
angry or annoyed getting angry or
annoyed is human nature and we need to
know how to express ourselves so i’m
taking care of that today let’s get
started now i’m sure many of you will
know the typical more basic ones like
angry cross mad but today i want to show
with you some more alternative
vocabulary more advanced vocabulary and
some idioms and some expressions that
you can use so this video is going to
help you express yourself it’s going to
help you with your speaking it’s also
going to help you with your listening so
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get started with the lesson just a quick
warning a couple of the words that I’m
going to talk about could offend some
people or maybe you don’t want your
children knowing them no swear words but
if you’re around children headphones in
and if you’re easily offended then you
can you can find another video you’ve
been warned the first bit of new
vocabulary that I’m going to share with
you is actually a phrasal verb and this
is to piss
and you can also be pissed off and it
means to make angry or to annoy so I
could say I felt really pissed off when
I saw that somebody had scratched my car
or I think I really pissed my teacher
off when I didn’t hand in my homework on
time just so you know that word - piss
off piss on its own is actually a vulgar
word for to urinate so it’s not
respectful so around friends very
informal situations but it’s important
you understand it the next one is
another phrasal verb and this is to rile
somebody up to rile one up and again it
means to make somebody angry to push
them until they maybe explode or lose
their temper so to rile up or to rile
somebody up is to make them angry
so I could say somebody’s been picking
on me for a while and they’re really
riling me up I feel like I’m going to
lose my temper
okay the next words all go with the verb
to be so these are all ways of saying to
be angry or to be annoyed so the first
one to be livid livid just means really
really really angry then we have to be
fuming again similar to livid really
really angry then we have to be seething
if you see you are just so angry then we
have a couple that aren’t as strong we
have to be it worked that’s annoyed and
just ever so slightly pissed off and we
also have miffed if somebody does
something that makes you go oh then you
could say you feel a bit missed and now
I have some idioms for you some
expressions that we like to use to
express annoyance or anger the first one
is to rub somebody up the wrong way or
also to rub somebody the wrong way the
up is optional and to rub somebody the
wrong way think about it this way you
can stroke a cat the right way or you
can stroke them the wrong way and it
annoys them well this is exactly the
same for people if you rub somebody up
the wrong way you are treating them in a
way that
like to make some angry or annoyed that
really rubbed me up for the wrong way
that really annoyed me the next one to
be at the end of one’s tether so if I
say I’m at the end of my tether it means
I am this close to losing my temper to
getting really really angry
you’ve really offended me you’ve really
annoyed me I’m this close to really
exploding another very similar one is
the last straw so the last straw is that
final thing in a collection of many
little things I’ve annoyed you but that
one thing it’s the last straw it’s the
thing that makes you lose your temper so
I could say I had a terrible day but my
running training being canceled was the
last straw I just screw it with really
angry the next two are about losing your
temper and obviously if you lose your
temper it means that’s it you are you
are angry you’re shouting you get maybe
a bit aggressive so one way of saying to
lose one’s temper is to lose ones lag so
rag replaces temper in this case so if
somebody lost their rag it means they
exploded in a fit of anger and another
option is to fly off the handle again to
lose ones rags to fly off the handle to
lose one’s temper so I’ve got some
homework for you I would like you to
write in the comment section something
that made you angry or annoyed recently
if you want to share it of course I
think it will be really interesting
normally I’m all about spreading
positivity but I don’t know today I want
to spread the annoyance and the anger so
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