in a bake

English

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Prepositional phrase

in a bake

1. (idiomatic, informal) Very angry.
   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

     O, Dedalus, he cried, Doyle is in a great bake about you.

     Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 81

Anagrams

• Abenaki, ikebana