0 embarrassed or angry about something:
They get pretty hot under the collar about the ordinary system of general rating.
Will he recall how hot under the collar they got?
A difference of three or four months is nothing to get hot under the collar about.
The people who are now asking questions about finance in other areas must feel very hot under the collar.
The only question—and we need not get hot under the collar about it—is: what is the best way of doing it?
It is absurd, to use a colloquialism, to get "hot under the collar" about a passing statement of this kind.
We should put this matter in context, and should not get too hot under the collar about it.
Therefore, please do not let us get hot under the collar about these tomatoes.
