get (one's) monkey up



get (one's) monkey up

To make one angry. Please calm down, I didn't mean to get your monkey up. This whole situation gets my monkey up so much—it's amazing that I haven't screamed at the whole staff today.
See also: get, monkey, up

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ulli-German
Yavuz-Turkish
Petulapə-TYOO-ləEnglish (Rare)
Artem-Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian
Mirjana-Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene
AntonAHN-tawn (German), ahn-TON (Russian, Ukrainian), AHN-ton (Finnish)German, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Macedo