grind (someone's) gears

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grind (someone's) gears

To greatly or specifically irritate or annoy someone. It really grinds my gears when cyclists go zipping through red lights! John's not a bad guy, but he has a habit of grinding people's gears with his political rants.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yanka	-	Bulgarian
Shin	sheen	Japanese
Cambria	KAM-bree-ə (English)	Various
Mehmet	meh-MET	Turkish
Wallace	['wɔlis]
Joachim	zho-a-KEEM (French), YO-ah-khim (German), yo-AH-khim (German), yaw-AH-kheem (Polish), JO-ə-kim (English)	French, German, Polish, Judeo-Christian Legend