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one's blood being up

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Roget 861: one's blood being up; courage sans peur [Fr.]; fortes fortuna adjuvat [Lat.] [Terence]; have I not in my time heard lions roar" [Taming of the Shrew]; I dare do all that may become a man" [Macbeth]; male vincetis sed vincite [Lat.] [Ovid]; omne solum forti patria [Lat.]; self-trust is the essence of heroism" [Emerson]; stimulos dedit oemula virtus [Lat.] ... show more

Roget 900: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur [Lat.]; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Lat.] [Vergil]; beware the fury of a patient man" [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Lat.] ... show more

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