Over-excited
101Bite your arm off — This is not aggressive behaviour that a football fan might engage in. In fact it just means that someone is over excited to get something. For instance you might say that kids would bite your arm off for an ice cream on a sunny day …
102aerated — adj angrily over excited or agitated. Perhaps originated by educated speakers who were familiar with the technical senses of aerate (to supply the blood with oxygen or to make effervescent), but usually used nowadays by less sophisti cated… …
103get one's knickers in a twist — vb British to become agitated, flustered or over excited. This picturesque vulgarism originated in the late 1950s with a purely sexual sense. Now widely used, it is generally heard in the negative form, exhorting someone to calm down. See also… …
104lay an egg — vb 1. American to fail, to be responsible for a dismal or disappointing performance. This expression comes from the Victorian British saying lay a duck s egg , meaning to score zero (now extinct in British speech). 2. Australian to behave in an… …
105overexcited — see over excited …
106overwrought — a. 1. Overdone, elaborated too much. 2. Over excited, excessively stirred …
107aerated — Adj. Over excited. Becoming obsolete, although still heard used by older generations. Often mispronounced as aeriated …
108hyped up — Verb. Over excited, manic …
109hyper — Adj. Over excited, nervous, agitated …
110angry — adj 1. wrathful, wroth, irate, ireful, incensed, horn mad; enraged, raging, fuming, smoking, infuriated, Rare. infuriate, furious; livid, Inf. mad as a hornet, Inf. mad as hops, Inf. mad as a wet hen; inflamed, flaming, flaring, flared up, heated …
