get on someone's nerves
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get on someone's nerves
verb gets on someone's nerves · getting on someone's nerves · got on someone's nerves · gotten on someone's nerves
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To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
There’s an insect buzzing around in my bedroom tonight, and it’s really getting on my nerves.
Similar: aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, burn someone's ass, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug
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verb annoy or irritate
| Español | poner los nervios de punta, alterar los nervios, crispar los nervios, poner de los nervios |
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| 한국어 | 거슬리다 geoseullida |
| 日本語 | 神経を尖らせる shinkei o togaraseru |
| 中文 | 惹毛 rěmáo |
| Português | dar nos nervos |
| Français | courir sur le haricot, taper sur les nerfs, casser les couilles |
| Deutsch | auf die Nerven gehen |
| Italiano | dare sui nervi, stare sui nervi, fare venire la mosca al naso, fare venire il latte alle ginocchia |
| Русский | де́йствовать на не́рвы déjstvovatʹ na nérvy, играть на нервах igratʹ na nervax |
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