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Idiom

rant and rave

Meaning

To express furious anger.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He started to rant and rave about the broken machine.”

“When the flight was cancelled, the passenger began to rant and rave at the counter staff.”

“The manager continued to rant and rave about the missed deadline, leaving the entire team in a state of uncomfortable silence.”

Examples

simple

“He started to rant and rave about the broken machine.”

contextual

“When the flight was cancelled, the passenger began to rant and rave at the counter staff.”

complex

“The manager continued to rant and rave about the missed deadline, leaving the entire team in a state of uncomfortable silence.”

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