get on someone's nerves

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get on someone's nerves (third-person singular simple present gets on someone's nerves, present participle getting on someone's nerves, simple past got on someone's nerves, past participle (UK) got on someone's nerves or (US) gotten on someone's nerves)

1. (idiomatic) To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:annoy

   There’s an insect buzzing around in my bedroom tonight, and it’s really getting on my nerves.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves...

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