set (one's) back up

To be or become angry, hostile, defensive, or irritable, or to cause such a feeling in someone else. John started setting his back up when his parents brought up the subject of college again. Election season always sets my dad's back up. Few things set my back up like hearing about a poacher killing an endangered animal.

词组	set (one's) back up
释义	set (one's) back up set (one's) back up To be or become angry, hostile, defensive, or irritable, or to cause such a feeling in someone else. John started setting his back up when his parents brought up the subject of college again. Election season always sets my dad's back up. Few things set my back up like hearing about a poacher killing an endangered animal. See also: back, set, up Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: put (one's) back up get (one's) back up get back up get someone's back up get/put somebody's back up have (one's) back up have back up Irish get (one's) Irish up get (one's) hackles up
随便看	put head on the block put heart into put horns on (one) put house in order put ideas into head put ideas in(to) (one's) head put ideas into someone's head put in put in a good word put in a good word (for one) put in a good word for someone/something, to put in a hard day at work put in a hard day's work put in an appearance put in an awkward position put in a nutshell put in a plug for (someone or something) put in at (some place) put in a word put in for put in force put in for (something) put in head put in jeopardy put in layaway