What is an anger-as-hot-contained-fluid metaphor?

What is an anger-as-hot-contained-fluid metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which anger is represented as a hot fluid, such that
	a change in the temperature, level, or turbulence of the fluid represents a change in the amount of anger containment of the fluid represents control of the anger, and explosion of the fluid represents loss of control.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	You make my blood boil. Let him stew. Keep cool. We got a rise out of him. He managed to keep his anger bottled up inside him.

Generic
	An anger-as-hot-contained-fluid metaphor is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for anger?

Source
	Kovecses 1986

Context for this page:

Concept module: anger-as-hot-contained-fluid metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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