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	Pronounced	Usage
Eseld	-	Cornish
Corine	kə-REEN	English
Herbert	HUR-bərt (English), er-BER (French), HER-bert (Polish)	English, German, French, Slovene, Polish
Gerbern	-	Ancient Germanic
Carolina	kah-ro-LEE-nah (Italian, Spanish), ka-roo-LEE-nə (Portuguese), ker-ə-LIEN-ə (English), kar-ə-LIEN-ə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Swedish
Goizeder	-	Basque