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Get one's dander up.

Posted by Andy Sabl on June 09, 2000

Does anyone know where this comes from? Dictionaries tell me that "dander" is a corruption of dandruff, but this doesn't help much since I don't think people's dandruff gets worse when they're angry.

Just wondering..

Andy.

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