get on someone's nerves



get on someone's nerves

Irritate someone, as in His fidgeting gets on the teacher's nerves, or, as T.S. Eliot put it in The Elder Statesman (1959): "How it used to get on my nerves, when I saw you always sitting there with your nose in a book." [c. 1900]
See also: get, nerve, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Marit-Swedish, Norwegian
Ena (1)-Irish
Ashburnham['æʃbɜ:nəm]
Heli (1)-Biblical, Biblical Latin
Ayscue['eiskju:]
Hild-Anglo-Saxon