get on someone's nerves

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

get on someone's nerves

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

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

   • 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:

     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
• German: jemandem auf die Nerven gehen, jemandem auf den Geist gehen (de)
• Hungarian: az idegeire megy
• Italian: dare sui nervi, stare sui nervi, far venire la mosca al naso, far 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: 신경을 곤두하다 (singyeong-eul gonduhada)
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• 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)
• Spanish: poner los nervios de punta (colloquial locution), repatear (es)
• Swedish: gå någon på nerverna
• Thai: กวนประสาท

See also

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