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hackles
/ ˈæə /
plural noun
- the hairs on the back of the neck and the back of a dog, cat, etc, which rise when the animal is angry or afraid
- anger or resentment (esp in the phrases get one's hackles up, make one's hackles rise )
Idioms and Phrases
see raise someone's hackles .Example Sentences
Among those he ministered to were two female prisoners, one of them a Muslim, which raised some hackles in the Vatican.
Scottish hackles had been raised enough by the suggestion that they - winners of the past four meetings - would be bullied out of the game.
“If I were going to tell you one thing that really gets my hackles up, it’s a persistent weak layer,” said Mace, the avalanche forecaster.
Adopting a fact checking system inspired by an Elon-Musk-owned platform was always going to raise hackles.
His current nominee, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, isn't raising as many hackles, despite her threats to arrest prosecutors for enforcing the law against those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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