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- get on someone's nerves
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]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Annalise | | - | English (Modern) |
| Zorka | | - | Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian |
| Alda (3) | | - | Icelandic |
| Campbell | | KAM-bəl | Scottish |
| Glen | | GLEN | Scottish, English |
| EydÍS | | - | Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic |