I caught myself saying, \u201cteed off\u201d the other day \u2014 and \u2014 I wasn\u2019t playing golf. I used the term because something had annoyed me for some reason. If I had been playing golf and just hit my golf ball from a tee when starting a hole, I\u2019d have teed off. But the fact that something had just annoyed me that had nothing to do with golf, I wondered why I was \u201cteed off.\u201d<\/p>\n
I think this is an idiom\u2026 which (I think) are expressions or figures of speech that stand for something other than what is being said. I know you\u2019re expecting my extensive research to kick in about now and for me to offer up a plausible explanation of why we sometimes say we\u2019re teed off when we\u2019re angry, disgusted, or annoyed. But I\u2019m really not in the extensive research mood today\u2026 I think I\u2019ll just sit here and see if any other idioms for anger pop into my head.
\nI\u2019ve heard of going postal, a bad hair day, blowing your stack, and biting someone\u2019s head off. Then there\u2019s hot under the collar, up in arms, bent out of shape, fit to be tied, doing a slow burn and seeing red. I\u2019ve heard that people go off the deep end or go up the wall or fly off the handle or blow their top and sometimes they scream bloody murder.<\/p>\n
I guess if you\u2019re teed off, ticked off or fly off the handle for some reason, you just need to say something<\/em> \u2014 and I have to admit, using terms like these that don\u2019t have anything to do with the situation is better than cursing. I remember growing up in Oklahoma, to break myself of using \u201cbad words\u201d when angry, I used names of cities or towns in Oklahoma \u2014 like Tishomingo, Tahlequah, Anadarko, Eufaula, or Chicasha\u2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I caught myself saying, \u201cteed off\u201d the other day \u2014 and \u2014 I wasn\u2019t playing golf. I used the term because something had annoyed me for some reason. If I had been playing golf and just hit my golf ball … Continue reading
\nFor some reason, when we\u2019re frustrated, we need to express that feeling verbally\u00a0\u2014 I think it doesn\u2019t matter too much what you say\u2026..
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