get someone's back up

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get someone's back up

verb gets someone's back up · getting someone's back up · got someone's back up · gotten someone's back up

idiomatic To annoy or anger someone. That joke really got my boss's back up.
Similar: annoy and Thesaurus:enrage

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@misc{get_someone_s_back_up_2026,
  title = {get someone's back up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/get%20someone's%20back%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}