like a red rag to a bull

Well this article was like a red rag to a bull.

Defeat to an Australian is like a red rag to a bull.

But in Lauren's mood it was like a red rag to a bull.

Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action.

The word "ascendency" seemed to act like a red rag to a bull.

"For me, it's like a red rag to a bull.

"like a red rag to a bull" (to cause someone to be enraged)

You'd be like a red rag to a bull if Tonnerre caught sight of you."

Any suspicion of impropriety was to Elizabeth-Jane like a red rag to a bull.

But she knew his presence would be like a red rag to a bull so far as Granny McNamara was concerned.

It was a symbol of the village's allegiance to the revolution, but to the Comte it was like a red rag to a bull.

And when one made it to the centre circle and started his own sit-in, to Speedie that was like a red rag to a bull.

There are other bright coloured buildings to be seen in Newhnam, but for some neighbours, the pink pub is like a red rag to a bull.

Being asked to stay away from her as she struggled to cope with fame was, he claims, "like a red rag to a bull at the Daily Star".

"She's like a red rag to a bull for me," Egbert says during a drunken family dinner, just before he charges at Julie, tackling her to the floor.

His name was like a red rag to a bull to Republicans and Romantics, but he avenged himself on his worst enemies by fables or epithets against them.

To the Inquiry Inspector, Michael Barnes, this point-blank refusal to discuss an issue which had become central to the nuclear debate was like a red rag to a bull.

"For him, the name of Shulamit Aloni was like a red rag to a bull," Mr. Friedman said, referring to the Meretz leader.

The very term 'federalism' is interpreted positively and as decentralisation in some countries, whilst it can be like a red rag to a bull and seen as centralisation in other countries.

Dr. Suddendorf has roused comparative psychologists to action - "like a red rag to a bull," as one comparative psychologist, Sara Shettleworth of the University of Toronto, put it.

And Parliament isn't terribly likely to sit still for three million pounds without asking some pointed questions-and the Official Secrets Act is like a red rag to a bull with some of the back-benchers.

Negative statements such as'I don't know how you can work with them' or 'they don't belong here - this is a college', which were once like a red rag to a bull to me, no longer insult or injure as they did.