Wow thanks for that, you just shone a light in a dark corner of my mind. I am not a native speaker, although I have a decent level in english (enough that some

Wow thanks for that, you just shone a light in a dark corner of my mind. I am not a native speaker, although I have a decent level in english (enough that some native english speakers thought I was on multiple occasions, which boggles my mind). So, somehow I always had an uncanny feeling with "in anger": much to my surprise I intuitively wanted to use it the "proper" way regularly but somehow always refrained from it because rationally I thought it really carried the literal "angry" weight, even though it just didn't feel true. Idioms really can turn out odd.