get on someone's nerves
get on (one's) nerves
To irritate, grate on, or exasperate one. Nothing personal, but your voice is really getting on my nerves. Tom's been really defiant ever since he started daycare, and it's starting to get on my nerves.
See also: get, nerve, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
get on someone's nerves
Irritate someone, as in His fidgeting gets on the teacher's nerves, or, as T.S. Eliot put it in The Elder Statesman (1959): "How it used to get on my nerves, when I saw you always sitting there with your nose in a book." [c. 1900]
See also: get, nerve, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
get on someone's nerves
INFORMALCOMMON If someone or something gets on your nerves, they irritate you. Camilla likes him but he gets on my nerves. She talks all the time and it gets on my nerves.
See also: get, nerve, on
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
get on someone's nerves
irritate or annoy someone. informalSee also: get, nerve, on
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- get on (one's) nerves
- get on nerves
- get on somebody's nerves
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- Who can tell?
- Who's to say?
- at the back of beyond
- somewhere to hang hat
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