red mist

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Noun

red mist (plural red mists)

1. (figurative) Uncontrollable rage, anger sufficient to prevent clear thinking.

   What was that tackle about? The red mist still descends on Beckham occasionally.

   • 2019 September 8, Andrew Benson, BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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^[2], 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.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ mist.

   the red mists of the morning

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