get (someone's) Irish up

To become or cause to become angry, hostile, defensive, or irritable. John got his Irish up when his parents brought up the subject of college. Election season always gets my dad's Irish up.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Petrica	-	Romanian
Emmeline	EM-ə-leen, EM-ə-lien	English (Archaic)
Nada (1)	-	Arabic
Huan	-	Chinese
Hjalmar	YAHL-mahr (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
YrjÄNÄ	UYR-ya-na	Finnish