What does the phrase you saw red mean?

Answer 1

This term most likely originates from bull fighting, where the matador would wave a red cape at a bull -- a color that enrages the bull and causes him to charge. Seeing red is acting like a bull seeing that cape...getting so angry that rationality is lost.

Answer 2

Probably from the old belief that bulls got angry when they saw red.

Thus seeing red equated to becoming angry.

Answer 3

basically that you you become angered towards something, you vision is disturbed by your anger towards that you are looking at

Answer 4

It's not really an idiom -- when people are embarrassed they really do turn red.

Answer 5

Seeing red means you are very angry, as if the blood has rushed to your head and covered your eyes.

Answer 6

what does the phrase saw red mean