spit feathers | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To feel verythirsty.2003,Robert David MacDonald, “Salto Mortale”, inPlays Two,→ISBN,page94:Where is that sodding drink? I'mspitting feathers.2003, M. Dylan Raskin,Little New York Bastard,→ISBN,page202:I was just aboutspitting feathers. My throat was so dry and sore that I could barely feel my own tongue.2010, Peter Bond,Exodus: Earth Fights Back,→ISBN,page135:“I've always liked camomile tea, and I'mspitting feathersafter walking all the way over here. Nothing quenches the thirst like camomile tea.”; (idiomatic)To feel veryangry; tosputterangrily.2007,Imogen Edwards-Jones, Anonymous,Fashion Babylon,→ISBN,page19:He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos andspitting feathersthat Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback.2011,Jonathan Wright,Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church,→ISBN,page258:Yesterday's heresy—the sort of thing that made orthodox theologiansspit feathers—becomes today's tourist attraction.2012,Tom Bennett,Teacher: Mastering the Art and Craft of Teaching,→ISBN,page43:Spartan education was entirely geared to the sublimation of the individual to the state, the disintegration of the ego and its reorientation as an agent of Spartan civilization. Proponents of child-centred education wouldspit feathers, I imagine.

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