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Englishboiling point
Meaning: The point at which one loses one's temper.
Example: “After hours of delays, the passengers' tempers reached boiling point.”
Origin: Water reaching its boiling point bubbles over, and anger is often pictured as heat rising inside a person. The figurative sense of the moment one's temper breaks is common from the 19th century.
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