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What does the idiom don't get your hackles up mean?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

"Getting one's hackles up" is a reference to animals that, in an effort to make themselves appear larger and more menacing, they will raise the hair on the back of their neck and down their back to serve as a visual warning to their apponent that the situation is reaching the flash point.

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