in a temper—in an irritable or angry mood:
- I got up in a temper, and told him to leave me.
Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase in no temper—not in the mood for smth.:
- Garibaldi, marching obstinately to defeat, was in no temper to listen to anybody, to Mazzini least of all.
out of temper — = in a temper:
- Don’t go upstairs. Mother’s there and she’s out of temper.