Idiom
boiling point
Meaning
The state of being heated, with high aggression.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His anger reached boiling point during the argument.”
“After months of unfair treatment, the workers' patience finally reached boiling point and they walked out.”
“Years of suppressed resentment, carefully hidden beneath polite smiles, suddenly surged to boiling point when she discovered the betrayal.”
Examples
simple
“His anger reached boiling point during the argument.”
contextual
“After months of unfair treatment, the workers' patience finally reached boiling point and they walked out.”
complex
“Years of suppressed resentment, carefully hidden beneath polite smiles, suddenly surged to boiling point when she discovered the betrayal.”
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