Fiery/feisty temper

Fiery personality, fiery temper: enthusiastic, ardent, fiery, feisty, dashing.- caractère, tempérament fougueux, enflammé, ardent

The Mediterranean island of Corsica had come under French jurisdiction shortly before Napoleon’s birth in 1769. Its dramatic landscape and distinctive culture, characterised by strong family ties and volatile feuds, are often held to have shaped Napoleon’s nature and values.
(feud=querelle, dispute)

• He gets feisty when he talks about politics.

Skeleton(s) in the closet/cupboard

To have a secret of any sort that you don't want revealed, a hidden and shocking secret.- un cadavre dans le placard

• My uncle was in jail for a day once. That's our family's skeleton in the closet.

Origin:

The phrase 'a skeleton in the closet' was coined in England in the 19th century. Since then the word 'closet' has become used primarily in England to mean 'water closet'. The English now usually use 'a skeleton in the cupboard', with 'skeleton in the closet' more common in the USA.

'A skeleton in the closet' undoubtedly originated as an allusion to an apparently irreproachable person or family having a guilty secret waiting to be uncovered. The close-at-hand domestic imagery of a closet or cupboard gives a sense of the ever-present risk of discovery.

Windbag

slang, figurative, pejorative = [sb] who talks excessively.- grande gueule, moulin à paroles, pipelette

syn: bigmouth, babblermouth, gasbag

To be gobsmacked

utterly astonished; astounded- être baba
gob= la bouche, clapet    smacked= bise



being totally speachless.unable to think of anything to say.

• Mate, that's such a wicked surprise! I'm gobsmacked (wicked= sacré)

At the eleventh hour

At the eleventh hour (figurative): at the last possible moment.- au tout dernier moment, in extremis

Just before the last clock hour, 12

• At the eleventh hour, the supplies reached the starving villagers.
• Negotiators reached agreement at the eleventh hour, just in time to avoid a strike.

To be cheesed off

to be cheesed off by so, to get cheesed off with sth. (informal) - en avoir marre de quelque chose 

Syn: to be browned off, to be exasperated, to be pissed off (informal) 

annoyed and disappointed with something or someone: greatly annoyed; out of patience; "had an exasperated look on his face"; "felt exasperated beyond endurance

• I was really cheesed off that they made me go to the back of the queue
• She's a bitcheesed off with her job.