- get on someone's nerves
- if someone or something gets on your nerves, they make you feel annoyed or nervous
His constant humming is really beginning to get on my nerves.
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get on someone's nerves
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get on someone's nerves — ► get on someone s nerves informal irritate someone. Main Entry: ↑nerve … English terms dictionary
get on someone's nerves — IRRITATE, annoy, irk, anger, bother, vex, provoke, displease, exasperate, infuriate, gall, pique, needle, ruffle someone s feathers, try someone s patience; jar on, grate on, rankle; Brit. rub up the wrong way; informal aggravate, get to, bug,… … Useful english dictionary
get on someone's nerves — idi get on someone s nerves, to irritate or annoy someone … From formal English to slang
get on someone's nerves — get/grate on (someone s) nerves informal to annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again. If we spend too much time together we end up getting on each other s nerves. The telephone hadn t stopped ringing all morning and it was… … New idioms dictionary
get on someone's nerves — her squeaky voice gets on my nerves Syn: irritate, annoy, irk, anger, bother, vex, provoke, displease, exasperate, infuriate, gall, pique, needle, ruffle someone s feathers, try someone s patience; jar on, grate on, rankle; rub the wro … Thesaurus of popular words
get on someone's nerves — informal irritate someone. → nerve … English new terms dictionary
get on one's nerves — If you get on someone s nerves, you annoy or irritate them a great deal. The children next door are so noisy they re getting on my nerves … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
get on someone's wick — (informal) To irritate someone • • • Main Entry: ↑wick * * * get on someone’s wick british very informal phrase to annoy someone Thesaurus: to make someone angry or annoyedsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
get up someone's nose — (informal) To annoy, irritate someone • • • Main Entry: ↑nose * * * get up someone s nose Brit informal : to annoy or irritate (someone) His jokes are really beginning to get up my nose. [=(US) get on my nerves] • • • Main Entry: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
grate on someone's nerves — get/grate on (someone s) nerves informal to annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again. If we spend too much time together we end up getting on each other s nerves. The telephone hadn t stopped ringing all morning and it was… … New idioms dictionary
