be spitting feathers

I would have been spitting feathers if I was there.

Bloody hell, I was spitting feathers when I heard that article.

But the loony Tory right is spitting feathers.

'The Drugs Squad were spitting feathers, of course, but it's their own fault it all went down the Swanee.

At New Scotland Yard, John McLeish was spitting feathers, as one of his staff graphically put it.

Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick intervened to physically urge the fans to halt their behaviour, an act later described by the Irish Independent as "a remarkable display of composure from the Dundalk man, who had every right to be spitting feathers at the defeat".