Seeing red

Posted by ESC November 19, 2003In reply to I saw red posted by Anders on November 19, 2003

Hi, what does it mean when someone says
"i saw red"?

Thanks.
Pueblos.

To see red means to become very angry.

SEE RED - "Become quickly (and perhaps violently) angry. Probably the origin of this thought is the belief that a red flag enrages a bull. In 1901, Mary Harrison writing under the name of Lucas Malet, picked up the expression in 'The History of Sir Richard Calmody': 'Happily violence is shortlived, only for a very little while do even the gentlest persons 'see red.'" From The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).