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Discover LudwigThe phrase "reach boiling point" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation in which a person or group of people is so angry about something that they can no longer control their emotions. For example, you could say, "After months of delays, the team finally reached boiling point."
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You have two options when things reach boiling point.
Tensions between the US and the Soviet Union eventually reach boiling point.
The revelation of the unusual last-minute attempted appointment comes as tensions between the Turnbull government and the former prime minister and his backers reach boiling point.
It is hard to imagine how they might get on with one another, or where the utterly inevitable argument that would take place between them would reach boiling point.
Israeli police were also put on a state of high alert in Israeli Arab towns, where already simmering racial tensions were likely to reach boiling point in the wake of yesterday's attacks.
An encore of their new Christmas song, only recorded earlier that day in the library, is a fitting festive message for the E.R.C members who are tired of the relentless consumerism and terrible music choices that threaten to reach boiling point in December.
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Now, though, a simmering backlash has reached boiling point.
"I am reaching boiling point and am incredibly stressed.
More teargas was fired, and emotions reached boiling point.
Popular anger, it would seem, has some way to go before it reaches boiling point.
In recent weeks the rhetoric has reached boiling point in parliament.
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