be sore as a boil

He took the package and said, "The cop was sore as a boil yesterday when he found you'd gone.

Doris was indignant-shucks, she was sore as a boiled owl.

He was sore as a boil and feeling much put upon, but I was damned if I'd back down."

I had a splitting headache, my arm was sore as a boil, but otherwise I was okay again.

He called me down to the ranch in December 1965 - the occasion was that he was sore as a boil at the Fed chairman, William McChesney Martin, for raising the discount rate.