get on someone's nerves

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Verb

get on someone 's nerves

(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
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)

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

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