What does the expression "to bring someone to a white heat" mean? Has someone really angered you? Then they've “довел до белого каления” (“dovel do belogo kaleniya” or “brought you to a white heat”). In old cartoons, a character who was extremely upset would turn red, then white and then steam would billow out of their ears. No translation was needed to understand their emotions: driven to a boiling point. In reality, this expression was borrowed from blacksmiths. Before forging