Make one’s blood boil

Origin of: Make one’s blood boil

Make one’s blood boil

In this particular format, the phraseology has only been around since the early 19th century whereas the concept of one’s blood boiling as in getting angry is much older. Shakespeare used it in his poem Venus and Adonis (1593) line 574, “Her face doth reek and smoke, her blood doth boil.” See also in cold blood.