grate

grate on (one's) nerves

To irritate or annoy someone. Her snarky comments are really starting to grate on my nerves.
See also: grate, nerve, on

grate on (someone or something)

1. To scrape or scratch against something. When you move the table, please make sure that the legs don't grate on the floor.
2. To be irritating or annoying. Her snarky comments are really starting to grate on me.
See also: grate, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grate on someone

to annoy someone; to rub someone the wrong way. Your negative attitude really grates on me. Everything you say grates on me.
See also: grate, on

grate on someone('s nerves)

Fig. to annoy someone; to bother someone. My obnoxious brother is grating on my nerves. Your whining really grates on me.
See also: grate, on

grate on something

to rub, scrape, or abrade something. The tree branch is grating on the side of the house. The bottom of the door is grating on the threshold. Please fix it. gratify someone's desires Euph. to have sex with someone. The prostitute promised to gratify her customer's desires. That night, he gratified her desires.
See also: grate, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

grate on

v.
1. To scrape against something and roughen or remove pieces of a surface: The fender was grating on the tire of the car.
2. To irritate someone or something as if by scraping or grating: These loud noises are starting to grate on me.
See also: grate, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • grate on (one's) nerves
  • grate on (someone or something)
  • grate on
  • get on (one's) nerves
  • get on nerves
  • get on somebody's nerves
  • get on someone's nerves
  • grind together
  • put (one's) teeth on edge
  • get on someone's tits
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Tried & Tested Cheese Graters
Thus, the iconographic narrative would seem to be this: the turbulent water pours down the steps and out of the Puritan domestic structure, through the grate at the base of the stairs, and metaphorically through the culvert pipe, into the underground where it is redeemed - an allegory of leaving home, leaving the Church, slipping through the cracks, and finding salvation in the counterculture of the underground, which is symbolized by the disorderly common beauty of the tide pool teeming with life.
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In downtown Washington, D.C., a private property manager recently chopped a deep gash in the trunk of a healthy linden tree in order to install a grate. The tree will likely die prematurely as a result.
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A light indicates that the unit is charging, and on a full charge the grater can grate more than 100 servings.
Cordless cheese grater debuts
As tree diameters increase, the aperture in the center of the grate must be enlarged to prevent it from girdling the tree.
Tree grates and guards - scrapping the heavy metal
Healthy brains may employ one anatomical mechanism to assess unconsciously the orientation of objects, such as the alighnment of a block or grate, and another to make conscious judgments concerning orientation, the researchers propose in the just-received September PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE.
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