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To provoke to frenzy or madness

To show anger or indignation

Verb

To provoke to frenzy or madness

make your blood boil

drive up the wall

make someone see red

rub up the wrong way

make blood boil

make you see red

put your back up

rub the wrong way

get on your nerves

get in your hair

give someone the hump

get under your skin

be on your back

raise your hackles

drive to distraction

get your dander up

get on your wick

drive round the twist

give someone the pip

send into a rage

make your hackles rise

get your hackles up

give someone grief

drive round the bend

get up your nose

give a hard time

rub you up the wrong way

get on someone's wick

make someone's hackles rise

get under someone's skin

raise someone's hackles

get someone's dander up

get in someone's hair

ruffle someone's feathers

rattle someone's cage

get up someone's nose

get someone's back up

make one see red

be like a red rag to a bull

arouse hostility in

drive you crazy

try your patience

drive you up the wall

wind somebody up

get on somebody's nerves

drive you to distraction

drive you round the bend

drive you round the twist

put your nose out of joint

get under one's skin

drive you off your head

get in one's hair

give a bad time

be a pain in the neck

drive you out of your mind

drive out of mind

make somebody's blood boil

be a thorn in someone's side

drive somebody up the wall

run up the wrong way

make someone's blood boil

put someone's back up

be on the back of

put someone's nose out of joint

get on someone's nerves

hit where one lives

get on one's nerves

take the piss out of

take the mickey out of

get someone's goat

make jokes about

try someone's patience

throw off balance

be sarcastic about

poke mullock at

cut to the quick

get across someone

put someone off their stroke

hurt someone's feelings

make a monkey of

make a monkey out of

be a thorn in someone's flesh

get someone's hackles up

stick in one's craw

try the patience of

bend someone's ear

set one's teeth on edge

put into a flap

cause someone to lose their composure

throw into a tizz

give offence to

rattle one's cage

pull somebody's leg

treat with contempt

try one's patience

give the business

hold up to ridicule

make a laughing-stock

work into lather

get a rise out of

rattle someone's chain

get on the nerves of

get in the hair of

stroke someone's hair the wrong way

ruffle one's feathers

push one's buttons

get someone's wick

cause resentment to

cause annoyance to

push someon's buttons

treat contemptuously

lose one's temper

wind someone up

show contempt for

rub one the wrong way

play a practical joke

take a rise out of

put someone out

cause suffering

give the cold shoulder

cause anguish to

arouse anxiety in

be on one's case

cause suffering to

make it tough for

discriminate against

be on someone's back

be disagreeable to

push the buttons of

shout catcalls at

upset the apple cart

have had enough

make discontented

exhaust someone's patience

mess with someone's head

weigh heavily on one's mind

do someone's head in

cause anxiety to

be a great weight on

breathe down someone's neck

be a nuisance to

make one's hackles rise

get on someone's case

lead someone a merry dance

play cat and mouse

put through wringer

rub salt in wound

fire the imagination of

fire the enthusiasm of

light a fire under

put the wind up

throw into tizzy

be disagreeable

be an affront to

hurt somebody's feelings

tread on someone's toes

make someone a laughing stock

hold up to shame

expose to ridicule

laugh out of court

throw into uproar

pull the rug out from under

pull the rug from under

throw into disorder

throw into confusion

pull someone's leg

lead somebody on

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Verb

To show anger or indignation

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Nearby Words

get your bearings

get your dander up

get your hackles up

get your hands on

get your head down

get your act together

get wrong impression

get worse again

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