get/put (someone's) back up

informal

to do or say something which annoys someone.

She put my back up immediately by interrupting everything I said.

• put head on the block
• put heads together
• put heart and soul into
• put heart and soul into doing something
• put heart and soul into something
• put heart into
• put heart into something
• put house in order
• put ideas into head
• put ideas into someone's head
• put in a good word
• put in a good word for
• put in a good word for someone
• put in a hole
• put in in two penn'orth
• put in in your two penn'orth
• put in mind of
• put in mind of someone
• put in mind of something
• put in motion
• put in place
• put in someone's place
• put in their place
• put in the picture
• put in the shade