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Meanings of border on hysteria in English

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Usage of border on hysteria in English
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The standing ovation that hailed his 52nd-minute introduction bordered on hysteria.
The Irish Times
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To his vast amazement he heard Ashe laugh, though the sound bordered on hysteria.
Key Out of Time
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Page had worked herself into a state bordering on hysteria.
K
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Morales started to laugh, the laughter bordering on hysteria.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Food and Grocery Council chief executive Katherine Rich said some of the criticism ' bordered on hysteria'.
Radio NZ
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A half-hour later the house-maid presented herself at Mrs. Halstead's door in a state bordering on hysteria.
The Fifth Ace
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Do what he says. Chrissie's voice was high, tight with a mortal terror that bordered on hysteria.
The bourne objective
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Peter said, his voice bordering on hysteria.
"Undo": A Novel
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Elise had been gay and talkative with a forced vivacity; and Lady Durwent had been bordering on hysteria.
The Parts Men Play
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The Gadfly, for his part, had returned to the fortress in a state of nervous excitement bordering on hysteria.
The Gadfly
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She was in a state almost bordering on hysteria, as even I, in spite of my usual obtuseness, noticed.
The Silent Bullet
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Much of the media coverage and comment that followed last Saturday's Dublin riots was so outlandish it bordered on hysteria.
The Irish Times
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"Suddenly you're very smug," Mrs. Levy said in a voice that bordered on hysteria.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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"I'm not!" The comtech's voice bordered on hysteria.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
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She was a thin, soured, ugly little woman, with an extraordinary capacity for work, and an excess of nervous vitality bordering on hysteria.
Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
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That festival is the funkiest of the trifecta -bridging Toronto and Venice -and the responses there were warm without bordering on hysteria.
The Irish Times