get a cob on

get a cob on
vb
British
to become angry, display irritation. The term has been used in the Channel 4 TV soap opera Brookside. Eric Partridge dated the phrase to the 1930s: the 'cob' in question is probably originally a dialect term for a lump or a protrusion, and can be dated back to English slang of the later 18th century.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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