mad as a wet hen

English

Adjective

mad as a wet hen (not comparable)

1. (US, colloquial, simile) Very angry; furious.
   • 1899, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, “The Doctor Puts Up a Job on the Major”, in Recollections of a Rebel Surgeon:

     My stars! He was mad; mad as a wet hen. He was so mad he looked, as big as he was, to be actually swelled.

Related terms

• angry as a wet hen
• miserable as a wet hen
• wild as a wet hen