get (someone's) back up

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

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Scheherazade	-	Literature
Lyudmil	-	Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Zaira	dzah-EE-rah	Italian
Bat-Erdene	-	Mongolian
SvĚTlana	-	Czech
Feruza	-	Uzbek