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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?
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"トサカに　くる" meaning
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/)」.
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