- het up (about/over something)
anxious, excited or slightly angry 焦虑；兴奋；生气 What are you getting so het up about? 什么事让你这么激动？ 🔊🔊 He was all het up about the extra cost. 他全都为那笔额外的费用而烦恼。 She got rather het up with some of the journalists. 她与一些新闻记者保持了联系。
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from dialect het ‘heated, hot’, surviving in Scots and northern English dialect.