A: Here comes the bus.

B: Shall we get on it and head over to the Central Park for a stroll?

A: Good idea. Alas, it didn’t stop!

B: That’s so annoying! It really makes me see red!

Note: This idiom means to “become enraged.” The color red has many associations — heat, heated emotions and violence, a sign of warning (as in traffic lights etc.), ripeness (in fruit etc.) and of course, blood. It is widely thought that “see red” derives from the sport of bull-fighting and the toreador’s use of a red cape to deceive the bull. Another explanation pointed to an American expression — “to see things red,” which alludes to a state of heightened emotion when the blood rises and we become angry.