get someone's dander up
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get someone's dander up
Rhymes with -ʌp
Where it comes from
US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.
verb gets someone's dander up · getting someone's dander up · got someone's dander up · gotten someone's dander up
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To anger or annoy someone.
Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]
Similar: annoy and Thesaurus:enrage
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