het up
adjective /ˌhet ˈʌp/
/ˌhet ˈʌp/
[not before noun] (informal)- het up (about/over something) anxious, excited or slightly angry
焦虑;兴奋;生气 - What are you getting so het up about?
什么事让你这么激动? - He was all het up about the extra cost.
他对额外的费用非常恼火。 - She got rather het up with some of the journalists.
她对一些记者相当恼火。
词源mid 19th cent.: from dialect het ‘heated, hot’, surviving in Scots and northern English dialect. - What are you getting so het up about?