get the wind up (one)
get the wind up (one)
To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action—that should get the wind up them!
See also: get, up, wind
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- put the wind up
- put the wind up (someone)
- put the wind up somebody
- put the wind up someone
- get/have the wind up
- have the wind up
- frighten
- be frightened to death
- scared to death
- (one's) hair stands on end