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
Asger-Danish
JaanaYAH:-nahFinnish
RubenRUY-bən (Dutch)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, French, Armenian, Biblical Latin
Cohen['kəuin]
Gavrilo-Serbian
Ayre[eə]