get on someone's nerves



get on someone's nerves

Irritate someone, as in His fidgeting gets on the teacher's nerves, or, as T.S. Eliot put it in The Elder Statesman (1959): "How it used to get on my nerves, when I saw you always sitting there with your nose in a book." [c. 1900]
See also: get, nerve, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Geneva[dʒi'ni:və]
Heraclius-Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Genoveffaje-no-VEF-fahItalian
Benayahu-Biblical Hebrew
&Thorn;One-Ancient Scandinavian
AvelineAV-ə-lien, av-ə-LEENEnglish (Rare)