yank chain

yank someone's chain

Sl. to harass someone; to give someone a hard time. (As if one were a dog wearing a choker collar, on a leash.) Stop yanking my chain! Do you really think you can just yank my chain whenever you want?

yank somebody's chain

also pull somebody's chain

to upset someone She knows that playing that music really yanks my chain.

Related vocabulary: push somebody's buttons

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cleto	KLE-to (Italian, Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Ragnar	RAHNG-nahr (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Eleazar	el-ee-AY-zər (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
&Thorn;ÓRir	-	Icelandic, Ancient Scandinavian
Vahagn	-	Armenian Mythology, Armenian
Augustus	[ɔ:'gʌstəs]