41 ways writers can express work frustration

I’ve had a rough time at work over the past couple of weeks: roadblocks, stonewalling, purposeful lack of communication, siloed behavior.

It makes me long for the days when my job just involved writing and editing. Let me correct some serial commas—please.

I thought I would try a little writing therapy. Below are idioms and words that describe the frustration I’ve felt lately. I’ve been “at my wit’s end” and “in a stew,” but I’ve also felt bewildered, incensed and riled.

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How many of these can you relate to?

1. At your wit’s end

2. At the end of your rope

3. Beside oneself

4. Bewildered

5. Blow a fuse

6. Blue in the face

7. Come apart at the seams

8. Exasperated

9. Fit to be tied

10. Fly off the handle

11. Foam at the mouth

12. Go off the deep end

13. Go through the roof

14. Hackles are up

15. Have a bee in your bonnet

16. Hot under the collar

17. In a stew

18. In a tailspin

19. Incensed

20. Inflamed

21. Infuriated

22. Irascible

23. Ireful

24. Knickers in a twist

25. Mad as a wet hen

26. Makes your blood boil

27. Nonplussed

28. Nose out of joint

29. On the warpath

30. Out of countenance

31. Piqued

32. Rabid

33. Riled

34. Run mad

35. Set your teeth on edge

36. Short-fused

37. Stirred up

38. Tear your hair out

39. Up in arms

40. Vexed

41. Wound up

What would to add to the list, PR Daily readers?

Laura Hale Brockway is writer and editor from Austin, Texas. Read more of her work on PR Daily and at impertinentremarks.

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