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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bit cross" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who is slightly angry or annoyed. Example: "She was a bit cross when she found out that her plans had been changed at the last minute."
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We might be a bit cross, sure.
Steven Spielberg must be a bit cross.
I'm becoming a bit cross about this.
"My husband was a bit cross," she told me, laughing.
So I got a bit cross, about people's maths!
I was a bit cross, but I now find I am 'entitled' to €400 compensation.
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This kind of tech makes me a bit cross-eyed in how simple it is conceptually, but how impressive it is technically.
Like when Gareth Southgate was picked for the centre of England's midfield, or when John Embury was recalled at the age of 92, it seemed as if the selectors had got a bit cross-eyed".
Eckhart has a smile a yard wide, a square jaw, and a thatch of Redfordish blond hair, but he's a bit cross-eyed, and when that grin spreads across his face you wonder if he's happy or just gloating.
With two dots and a little cross I have to make her happy, or just a little bit happy, a little bit cross or a little bit sad - and I do it over and over again.
Shale seems "a little bit cross and a little bit disappointed that a confidential paper had been leaked to the national press", according to Langridge.
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