Democrats in Michigan — one of the states likely to determine which party wins the White House — were apoplectic.

She continued that by the time she got home she had been "apoplectic with rage”, and had been "crying all night” because of her experience.

But people were downright apoplectic about the idea of Dobson leaving her cart unrestrained.

Rodgers was apoplectic at half-time, the angriest he had ever been as a manager, he said later.

And she was convinced that the thing that would send him into apoplectic, inconsolable sorrow was if the German shepherd — if that was the head in the box.