HanTrace

面红耳赤

miànhóng-ěrchì

Meaning

  • flushed with anger (or excitement)

Example

这两个人因意见不合,而争得面红耳赤不欢而散。

Due to differing opinions between the two, they argued angrily, before leaving unhappily.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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