hackles

• “Lots of times, gals get in hackles about voluptuous panty-flashing video game vixens and the game camera's decadent worship of their rendered flesh.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “Long, thin hackles are best: They move easily in the water and don't impede your casting.”

  Field & Stream Tip: How to Tie a Bucktail Plug

• “What really raises Madison Avenue’s hackles is the potential for Google to become Universal Advertising Inc.: a sprawling presence that brokers highly targeted ads across all media.”

  Google Scared of Microsoft? Increases Homepage Text by 33% to Address Bing

• “What raises my hackles about this post -- and, mind you, my hackles are my responsibility, not yours -- is its (wholly unintentional) echo of part of the bizarrely illogical conception of the Jews by Christian propagandists.”

  The Stain of Sin

• “Like I said, that was just my impression at the time and it didn't raise any of my "hackles," or "heckles.”

  The Guardian: Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield

• “hackles' up, and waiting for the enemy with an ominous growl.”

  The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911

• “And in twenty minutes, a long and lanky 80 pound gray wolf with black hackles stepped out of the timber below, looking for the source of the calling.”

  Special Report: Regular F&S.com Poster Takes Wolf in Idaho

• “Now, however, the statue is raising hackles among the city's business and financial establishment.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Milan's Bourse, Finger Pointing Has Business Leaders Up in Arms

• “Back in 1999 when Thomas Keller's "French Laundry Cookbook" came out with fiendishly difficult recipes, he raised hackles by asserting that cooking is not about shortcuts.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Modernism on a Fork

• “Second, Chinese official aid to unsavory governments in order to lubricate OFDI contracts raises governance and humanitarian concerns and, therefore, hackles among developed country governments.”

  The Huffington Post: StephenGoldsmith: FDI with Chinese Characteristics

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