in a huffBAD-TEMPEREDfeeling angry or bad-tempered, especially because someone has offended you 生气,气恼〔尤指因受到冒犯〕go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff She stormed out in a huff. 她气呼呼地冲了出去。
in a huff• He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary.• I felt I ought to have gone in earlier; that now I had put him in a huff.• Michelle got mad and left in a huff.• McCloskey, in a huff, went to the University of Iowa.• Did Parks stomp off in a huff like some injured prima donna, some egomaniac?• Owen went off in a huff and read the papers.• He was still in a huff that she was planning to take Petey along to the meeting that night.
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