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Verb

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

To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

Noun

The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

A fit of feeling annoyed, offended or resentful

Adjective

Offensive, causing or eliciting a strong negative reaction

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

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

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

getting under your skin

getting on one's nerves

getting your goat

driving round the bend

rubbing the wrong way

hounding

besetting

driving to distraction

agonizing^US

driving round the twist

giving someone the pip

agonising^UK

making somebody's hackles rise

ruffling one's feathers

getting your dander up

putting someone's nose out of joint

trying your patience

getting up someone's nose

hurting somebody's feelings

getting your hackles up

driving bananas

driving you up the wall

hitting where one lives

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

breathing down someone's neck

rubbing you up the wrong way

getting across someone

trying the patience of

setting one's teeth on edge

victimizing^US

making self-conscious

making someone fed up

putting someone off their stroke

wearing

taking the wind out of your sails

making miserable

sticking in one's craw

bending someone's ear

getting a rise out of

victimising^UK

causing discomfort to

pushing someon's buttons

bristling

riling up

running up the wrong way

pushing one's buttons

causing resentment to

making someone scratch their head

making an enemy of somebody

setting on edge

getting on the wrong side of

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

setting someone's teeth on edge

obsessing

eating up

getting even

upsetting the applecart

terrorizing^US

putting someone off their stride

setting someone back on their heels

bringing pressure to bear on

treading on someone's toes

driving you to distraction

making somebody's blood boil

driving you out of your mind

driving you round the bend

shattering

driving you off your head

driving you round the twist

breaking the heart of

mourning

pushing the buttons of

making it hot for someone

terrorising^UK

sticking the knife into

expelling

making things hot for someone

dragooning

singling out

getting the knife into

getting in the hair of

razzing

taking the mickey

getting on the nerves of

taking the piss out of

playing dirty

mispleasing

tiring out

making severe demands on

making demands on

putting a strain on

playing cat and mouse

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

giving the cold shoulder

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

filling with loathing

putting to some trouble

throwing into a tizzy

catching one short

dumbfounding

putting in a hole

putting out of countenance

dampening the spirits of

causing to lose heart

causing someone to lose their composure

inflicting anguish on

belabouring^UK

searching high heaven

making your gorge rise

causing inconvenience to

imposing upon

creating difficulties for

disengaging

detaching

sending over the edge

hurting the feelings of

knocking the wind out of

harshing one's mellow

aggressing

gagging

jumping on one's case

giving the needle

falling on

putting the squeeze on

tyrannizing^US

belaboring^US

tyrannising^UK

pouring cold water on

throwing cold water on

bringing tears to your eyes

carrying a heavy load

knocking the stuffing out of

breaking someone's heart

harshing someone's mellow

giving someone the blues

reducing to tears

making desolate

getting into a dither

giving someone bother

causing someone difficulty

making someone go out of his way

having an adverse effect on

striking down

going against the grain

causing to feel mental strain

causing to feel emotional strain

satirizing^US

making your head spin

stymieing

bringing up short

causing to be at a stand

staggering

messing with one's head

setting someone thinking

satirising^UK

pulling someone's leg

going through the mill

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“What really irks me about the finalists of the poster contest is this entry.”

Verb

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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction

galvanizing^US

energising^UK

energizing^US

galvanising^UK

catalyzing^US

catalysing^UK

lighting a fire under

fueling^US

firing the imagination of

firing the enthusiasm of

fanning the flames of

realizing^US

mobilizing^US

starting the ball rolling

realising^UK

firing with enthusiasm

mobilising^UK

getting someone going

counseling^US

counselling^UK

twisting someone's arm

organizing^US

coming into existence

giving a shot in the arm to

giving shot in arm

determining

striking

getting things rolling

organising^UK

being responsible for

acting as a stimulus to

having as a consequence

acting as an incentive to

innovating

incenting

implying

equaling^US

equalling^UK

adding fuel to the flames

adding fuel

bielding

propping up

raising the morale of

stimulating spiritually

giving confidence to

boosting morale

giving hope to

lifting the spirits of

stiffening the resolve of

building a fire under

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

biasing^US

biassing^UK

giving a shot in the arm

giving someone a kick

proposing

startling

favouring^UK

favoring^US

putting the screws on

commending

railroading into

bulldozing into

acting as a incentive to

giving the incentive to

whetting one's appetite

being partly responsible for

breathing new life into

leaving the door open to

laying the foundations of

laying the first stone of

getting in operation

getting off the ground

getting the ball rolling

getting something functioning

getting under way

getting something working

setting the ball rolling

colouring^UK

putting on cloud nine

putting on top of the world

giving a lift to

letting the sun shine in

bringing pressure to bear on

carrying weight with

cutting any ice with

making yourself felt with

bringing pressure to bear upon

coloring^US

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Noun

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The act of deliberately pestering or annoying someone

offence^UK

offense^US

being rubbed up the wrong way

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Noun

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A fit of feeling annoyed, offended or resentful

offence^UK

offense^US

rancor^US

rancour^UK

furor^US

furore^UK

disfavour^UK

disfavor^US

chip on your shoulder

being rubbed up the wrong way

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Adjective

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Offensive, causing or eliciting a strong negative reaction

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to drive you up the wall

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

gruelling^UK

grueling^US

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

unfavorable^US

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