Warpath

Two different parties with common interests were on the warpath when he cut in to settle the dispute.

The band of Indians were ready to go on the warpath at the slightest provocation.

The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.

The army was on the warpath.

He went often to visit the spot where the women had buried her, and sat musing there, when, it was thought, by some of his friends, he would have done better to try to amuse himself in the chase, or by diverting his thoughts in the war-path.