“The boys wanted to fire up the audience, and there was no better way than an upbeat, uptempo version of the Rolling Stones song they knew so well.”

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(usually used in third person form "gets") Annoying or irritating (someone)

getting

rubbing up the wrong way

giving someone the hump

driving mad

driving crazy

driving nuts

making someone see red

getting in someone's hair

getting on someone's nerves

getting on someone's tits

getting on your nerves

getting someone's back up

getting someone's dander up

getting someone's goat

getting someone's hackles up

getting someone's wick

getting under someone's skin

getting up your nose

gnawing

harrying

making someone's hackles rise

making your blood boil

rattling someone's cage

ruffling someone's feathers

trying someone's patience

getting under your skin

making somebody's hackles rise

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

driving to distraction

beleaguering

giving someone grief

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

asking for it

giving someone the pip

hitting where one lives

putting someone's nose out of joint

getting your dander up

ruffling one's feathers

getting up someone's nose

rasping

humping

exacerbating

rubbing the wrong way

disgusting

empurpling

trying your patience

getting on one's nerves

getting your hackles up

exciting

getting a rise out of

rubbing you up the wrong way

working up

driving you up the wall

agonizing^US

discriminating against

victimizing^US

criticizing^US

getting across someone

tantalizing^US

hurting somebody's feelings

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

freaking out

bending someone's ear

keeping after

criticising^UK

agonising^UK

victimising^UK

terrorizing^US

sticking in one's craw

finding fault with

terrorising^UK

trying the patience of

keeping complaining to

setting one's teeth on edge

making things hot for someone

showing antagonism to

feeling ill will towards

showing ill will towards

pushing about

bearing a grudge towards

causing resentment to

messing with

messing

pushing someon's buttons

souring

wigging

pushing one's buttons

guying

arousing hostility in

jeering

despairing

burdening

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

rattling someone's chain

making an enemy of somebody

taking a rise out of

starting

setting on

getting on the wrong side of

upsetting the applecart

giving the cold shoulder

making someone fed up

treading on someone's toes

curdling

scratching around

searching high heaven

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

running up the wrong way

taking the piss out of

mourning

pushing the buttons of

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

busting someone's balls

putting someone off their stroke

causing someone to lose their composure

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

having your knife into

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Present participle for to ignite or set alight, or to be ignited or set alight

galvanizing^US

energizing^US

galvanising^UK

energising^UK

giving a shot in the arm to

raising the morale of

giving shot in arm

lighting a fire under

stimulating spiritually

raising your spirits

lifting the spirits of

giving confidence to

boosting morale

stiffening the resolve of

revitalising^UK

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“In summer, it was common practice to fire up the stove for breakfast in the relative cool of the morning, cook dinner early, and then let the fire die out.”

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Present participle for to activate, or to put into motion