pop one's cork
To become explosively angry.
They even decided to give him something they never gave Burton: an honorary Oscar. When O'Toole got wind of it, though, he popped his cork like a bottle of bubbly, and, at age 70,
cork
/kɔɹk/
noun 6verb 6name 2adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
kind, little, own, porous, practical, released, removed, used
We found a little cork stopper floating in the wine bottle.
VERB + CORK
can't, face, get, harvesting, key, pull, pulled, put
She couldn't pull the cork out of the wine bottle with her bare hands.
CORK + NOUN
tree, wine
The cork tree grows throughout Portugal and provides most of the world's cork supply.
PREP.
in, into, out, out, than
I pulled the cork out of the wine bottle and poured myself a glass.
ADV.
only
The wine bottle was sealed cork only, without any plastic wrapper or foil covering.
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