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Verb

To annoy or aggravate someone

rub up the wrong way

drive up the wall

make someone see red

give someone the hump

get on your nerves

get your back up

make your blood boil

ruffle one's feathers

make somebody's hackles rise

get in your hair

get under your skin

get up someone's nose

try your patience

be a pain in the neck

get your dander up

give a hard time

get on your wick

be a thorn in someone's flesh

get your hackles up

give someone grief

put your back up

give a bad time

get on one's nerves

rub the wrong way

drive round the bend

drive to distraction

drive round the twist

give someone the pip

be on your back

put someone's nose out of joint

cut to the quick

raise your hackles

rattle someone's cage

send into a rage

cause suffering to

hurt somebody's feelings

weigh heavily on

cause anguish to

get across someone

breathe down someone's neck

cause trouble to

drive you up the wall

rattle one's cage

rub you up the wrong way

set one's teeth on edge

throw off balance

give offence to

cause anxiety to

hit where one lives

be on the back of

try the patience of

be a nuisance to

make discontented

stick in one's craw

get on the wrong side of

get a rise out of

cause concern to

be a great weight on

cause discomfort to

make uncomfortable

weigh heavily on one's mind

make you see red

work into lather

put pressure on

be an affront to

prey on your mind

be on one's case

get someone's wick

rattle someone's chain

upset the applecart

cause resentment to

cause annoyance to

make an enemy of somebody

hit a sour note

lose one's temper

stroke someone's hair the wrong way

run up the wrong way

push one's buttons

cause suffering

be in someone's way

drive you crazy

rasp one's nerves

be like a red rag to a bull

push someon's buttons

set someone's teeth on edge

arouse hostility in

be disagreeable to

push the buttons of

play cat and mouse

put through wringer

rub salt in wound

drive you to distraction

arouse anxiety in

make it tough for

be the victim of

bring pressure to bear on

put the squeeze on

drive you round the twist

drive you round the bend

be in someone's hair

break one's heart

give the business

jump on one's case

take a rise out of

drive you off your head

put a damper on

break the heart of

put into a funk

cause offense to

cause offence to

kick up a stink

lie heavy on someone's mind

weigh heavy on someone's mind

make someone fed up

give the needle

drive you out of your mind

make somebody's blood boil

drive out of mind

have had enough

exhaust someone's patience

mess with someone's head

do someone's head in

make despondent

take the heart out of

be disagreeable

tread on someone's toes

get the knife into

make things hot for someone

stick the knife into

make it hot for someone

give the cold shoulder

make demands on

make severe demands on

put a strain on

come back to haunt

be a weight on one's mind

bend someone's ear

weigh heavily on someone's mind

be afflicted with

be plagued with

get on someone's case

put someone off their stroke

be blighted with

be burdened with

be bedevilled by

put into a flap

throw into a tizz

cause someone to lose their composure

throw into tizzy

have someone do something

use strong-arm tactics on

twist someone's arm

put the heat on

put the screws on

rule with an iron hand

trample underfoot

weigh heavy upon

rule with a rod of iron

ride roughshod over

pull someone's leg

make jokes about

make a monkey of

take the mickey

poke mullock at

take the piss out of

be sarcastic about

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