hot and bothered
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Meaning · English
Annoyed and agitated, often due to frustration or irritation
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
Bực tức và kích động, thường do thất vọng hoặc khó chịu
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Literally: physically hot and disturbed
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Instead of getting all hot and bothered and self - righteous, how about calling your legal weasels off this morning and coming over later for a meeting.
She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “hot and bothered” mean?
Annoyed and agitated, often due to frustration or irritation Literally: physically hot and disturbed
Is “hot and bothered” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.