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
Lovell-English
KlausKLOWS (German, Finnish)German, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish
Andromedaan-DRAW-mə-də (English)Greek Mythology
Ignazio-Italian
EleonÓRa-Hungarian
DagDAHG (Swedish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish