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in anger
idiom
mainly UK
If you do something in anger, you do it in a real or important situation as it is intended to be done, rather than just learning or hearing about it:
It's one of the best films about football ever made, and yet you never actually see a ball kicked in anger.
There are some computer tools that rarely get used in anger but it's useful to know about them.
I was trained to shoot a gun, but I never fired a shot in anger.
See also
more in sorrow than in angerformal
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