get on someone's nerves

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

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...

Translations

annoy or irritate

• Czech: lézt na nervy
• Danish: gå nogen på nerverne
• Dutch: op de zenuwen werken
• Finnish: käydä hermoille
• French: courir sur le haricot (fr), taper sur les nerfs (fr)
• German: jemandem auf die Nerven gehen, jemandem auf den Geist gehen (de)
• Hungarian: az idegeire megy (hu)
• Italian: dare sui nervi, stare sui nervi, fare venire la mosca al naso, fare venire il latte alle ginocchia
• Japanese: 神経を尖らせる (しんけいをとがらせる, shinkei o togaraseru)
• Korean: 거슬리다 (geoseullida)
• Norwegian: gå noen på nervene
• Polish: działać na nerwy (pl) impf, grać na nerwach (pl) impf
• Portuguese: dar nos nervos (pt)
• Russian: де́йствовать на не́рвы (ru) impf (déjstvovatʹ na nérvy), играть на нервах impf (igratʹ na nervax)
• Spanish: poner los nervios de punta (colloquial locution), repatear (es), mojar la oreja
• Swedish: gå på nerverna (sv)
• Thai: กวนประสาท

See also

• get up someone's nose
• push someone's buttons