Full of piss and vinegar

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

We wanted to do something special, not just to piss it off.