English Explanatory Dictionary

set up someone's birse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make someone angry.

Word forms

set up someone's birse sets up someone's birse setting up someone's birse

Etymology

From the habit of animals bristling up when enraged.

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