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
Aminta	-	Literature
Ahti	AHH-tee (Finnish)	Finnish, Finnish Mythology
Hesiod	HES-ee-əd (English), HEE-see-əd (English)	Ancient Greek (Anglicized)
Olof	OL-of	Swedish
Chauncey	['tʃɔ:nsi]
Feidhelm	-	Irish