red rag

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red rag

a provocation; something that infuriates

[so called because red objects supposedly infuriate bulls]

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red rag

n → rotes Tuch; it’s like a red rag to a bull → das wirkt wie ein rotes Tuch

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inflammatory infuriate provocation rag red wall			What a red rag is to a bull, Turner's "Slave Ship" was to me, before I studied art. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context But I'll bring you my little chair, and some bits o' red rag and things for her to play wi'; an' she'll sit and chatter to 'em as if they was alive. Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context Then, whirling up his cudgel, he rushed upon Robin as an angry bull rushes upon a red rag. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context			red mullet red ned Red Notice red oak red ocher red ochre red onion Red orpiment red osier red osier dogwood red packet red panda red pepper Red perch red periwinkle red phalarope Red phosphorus red pimpernel red pine Red Planet Red Poll red porgy Red precipitate Red prussiate of potash red puccoon red rag red raspberry red rat snake red rattle red region Red Republican red ribbon Red River red rockfish red roman red rose red route red run red salmon red sandalwood red sanders red sanderswood Red sandstone red saunders Red scale red scare Red Sea red seaweed red setter red shank red shift			Red potatoes Red Power Round Up Red precipitate Red precipitate Red Privada Virtual Red prussiate Red prussiate Red prussiate of potash Red prussiate of potash red prussiate of soda red puccoon red puccoon red puccoon red puccoons red pulp red pulp red pulp red pulp disease red pulp sinus red pulp sinus red pulp sinus red pulp, splenic pulp red pulp, splenic pulp red pulp, splenic pulp Red Queen Red Queen effect Red Queen Hypothesis Red Queen race Red Queen's effect Red Queen's Hypothesis red rag Red Raider Orientation red raspberry red raspberry red raspberry Red Raspberry Leaf Tea red rat snake Red Rato Machhendranath red rattle red rattles Red Red Groove Red Red Wine Red Red Zone red reflex red reflex red reflex red reflex red region Red Regional de Información en el Area Nuclear Red Republican Red Republican (newspaper) Red revolution Red revolution Red Revolutionary Army Red Rhino Orphanage Project red ribbon Red ribbon (award) Red Ribbon Army red ribbons Red Riding Hood Red Right Returning

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