"トサカに　くる" meaning


This is taken from the manga Doraemon - of which I'm sure most people are
familiar with so in explaining the context I hope you don't think I'm crazy..

Having eaten a transforming biscuit that turned him into a cockerel, a man
complains about a prank phone call he just took:

"だれかの いたずらだ、 トサカに くる"

Translating that literally hasn't enabled me to understand the joke. Can
anyone shed some light?




In Japanese the phrase 「頭にくる」 is an idiom used to mean "get angry." 「トサカにくる」
is a slang version of that that emphasizes just how cheesed off you are. トサカ
(=鶏冠) is [the red part at the top of a chicken/rooster's
head](http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/cyocotomoca/imgs/9/3/93517228.JPG). Notice
how it goes up through the head and kind of flares out. Because of how silly
the image is, though, you'd use it at a time when a kind of silly playfulness
is involved. According to [this site](http://zokugo-
dict.com/20to/tosakanikuru.htm) it might refer to the redness of the chicken
as blood rushing to your head.

Apparently when you're seriously angry and just _have_ to express it through a
bodily extremity, you can use
「[怒髪天{どはつてん}を衝{つ}く](http://www.fleapedia.com/%E4%BA%94%E5%8D%81%E9%9F%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9/%E3%81%A8/%E3%83%88%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AB%E3%81%AB%E6%9D%A5%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF%E4%BD%95%E3%81%8B/)」.




In Japanese the phrase 「頭にくる」 is an idiom used to mean "get angry." 「トサカにくる」
is a slang version of that that emphasizes just how cheesed off you are. トサカ
(=鶏冠) is [the red part at the top of a chicken/rooster's
head](http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/cyocotomoca/imgs/9/3/93517228.JPG). Notice
how it goes up through the head and kind of flares out. Because of how silly
the image is, though, you'd use it at a time when a kind of silly playfulness
is involved. According to [this site](http://zokugo-
dict.com/20to/tosakanikuru.htm) it might refer to the redness of the chicken
as blood rushing to your head.

Apparently when you're seriously angry and just _have_ to express it through a
bodily extremity, you can use
「[怒髪天{どはつてん}を衝{つ}く](http://www.fleapedia.com/%E4%BA%94%E5%8D%81%E9%9F%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9/%E3%81%A8/%E3%83%88%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AB%E3%81%AB%E6%9D%A5%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF%E4%BD%95%E3%81%8B/)」.

