The metaphor is strangely apt, but the story that's got AMs hot under the collar is quite different.
Does your electronic device have you a bit hot under the collar these days?
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This is something that has got architect Howard Liddell, who advises the Scottish parliament, hot under the collar.
Thai government ministers get hot under the collar at the suggestion that MPs are involved in the illegal drug trade.
He said he had been in a meeting in the morning about council cuts and had been "hot under the collar".
It is sometimes said that members of the House of Lords only get really hot under the collar about sex, hunting and parliamentary reform.
Labour may be getting a bit hot under the collar over the UK government's reluctance to devote parliamentary time to a discussion of the Welsh government's revenue-raising abilities but peers have quietly got on with the job.
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But when the Italian leader was questioned about his chairmanship at a press conference, he grew hot under the collar, pointing out that he would hardly have become a billionaire unless he were fully capable of chairing a meeting.
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It's no secret that the Xbox 360 can get a little hot under the collar -- after all, this is the same console that drove people to build elaborate support systems or hang their power bricks out the window -- but who knew that the heat was intense enough to cook up some disgusting scrambled eggs?
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This hot-under-the-collar documentary devoted to the failure of the American school system is both touching and misleading.
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