| 词组 | get on someone's nerves |
| 释义 | Idiom get on someone's nerves Theme: ANNOYANCE to irritate someone.Please stop whistling. It's getting on my nerves.All this arguing is getting on their nerves. Idiom get on someone's nervesget/grate on (someone's) nerves informal to annoy someone, especially by doing something again and again.If we spend too much time together we end up getting on each other's nerves.The telephone hadn't stopped ringing all morning and it was starting to grate on my nerves. get on (one's) nervesTo 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. get on someone's nervesIrritate 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] get on someone's nervesINFORMALCOMMON 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. get on someone's nervesirritate or annoy someone. informal |
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