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Flare-up   /flɛr-əp/   Listen
noun
Flare-up  n.  
1.
A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute. (Colloq.)
2.
A sudden bursting into flame; a flaring.





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"Flare-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Medici had undermined the character of the Florentines. This, their last glorious struggle for liberty, was but a flash in the pan—a final flare-up of the dying lamp. The city was not satisfied with slavery; but it had no capacity for united action. The Ottimati were egotistic and jealous of the people. The Palleschi desired to restore the Medici at any price—some of them frankly wishing for a principality, others trusting that the old quasi-republican ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... 'Mind you stand on the top of the desk, Ruskin; gentlemen-commoners never stand on the steps.' I asked him whether it would look more dignified to stand head or heels uppermost. He advised heels. Then met Desart. 'We must have a grand supper after this, Ruskin; gentlemen-commoners always have a flare-up after reading their themes.' I told him I supposed he wanted to ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
... reply with equal heat but instead he ignored her argument and with a return to his former manner as though his flare-up of ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... not sure that I believe in you as much as I'd like to. I'll just tell you as much as I know. It really doesn't amount to anything. It was just after Jocelyn Thew had come back from Nicaragua and Dick Beverley was having a flare-up of his own in New York. They came together, those two, when Dick was in a tight corner. I don't know the story, but I know that Jocelyn Thew played the white man. Dick Beverley owes him perhaps his life, perhaps only his liberty, ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... without any reckoning. Platonov even now still remembered how a sudden fury seized him: "Ah, so? The devil take you!" he had thought. "And yet you want me to be chary of your watermelons? So then, here you are, here you are! ..." This flare-up helped him as though instantaneously. He carelessly caught the watermelons, just as carelessly threw them over, and to his amazement suddenly felt that precisely just now he had gotten into the real swing of the work with all his muscles, sight, and ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin


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