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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shulamite	-	Biblical
Sayen	-	Native American, Mapuche
Jason	['dʒeisn]
SerpİL	-	Turkish
Spiridon	-	Greek, Serbian, Croatian
Horatius	-	Ancient Roman