cross (one's) bows

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To annoy or irritate. Boy, you are really crossing my bows today. Why can't you just do what I ask without arguing about it?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
AnikÓ	AW-nee-ko	Hungarian
Ryuunosuke	ṙyoo:-no-soo-ke, ṙyoo:-no-ske	Japanese
Pridoni	-	Georgian
Emmanuel	e-man-WEL (French), i-MAN-yə-wəl (English), i-MAN-yəl (English)	Biblical, French, English
Ignacio	eeg-NAH-thyo (Spanish), eeg-NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Miguelito	-	Spanish, Portuguese