red mist

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red mist (plural red mists)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ mist.
    the red mists of the morning
  2. (figurative) Uncontrollable rage, anger sufficient to stop clear thinking.
    What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally.
    • 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎:
      On the face of it, this appears to have fit into a pattern that seems familiar with Vettel's errors in recent times. In stressed moments, a sort of red mist seems to descend that reduces his capacity for rational thinking.
    • 2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Spare‎, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:
      In that little office, seated before that wretched Do No Bend envelope, the red mist came down, and it wasn't a mist, it was a torrent.

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