make (someone's) hackles rise

To greatly irritate, annoy, or aggravate someone. The disrespect he showed our professor during class made my hackles rise so badly that I had to go take a walk to calm down. The politician has a gift for making his opponents' hackles rise during debates.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Clelia	-	Italian
Lileas	-	Scottish
Cherry	CHER-ee	English
Lidia	LEED-yah (Polish), LEE-dyah (Italian), LEE-dhyah (Spanish)	Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian
Hallvar&Eth;R	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Spartak	-	Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian