get someone's dander up

English

Etymology

US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.

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Verb

get someone's dander up

  1. (idiomatic) To anger or annoy someone.
    • 1846, Curtis, Harriot F., Jessie's Flirtations, page 89:
      Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]
    • 1854, Stephens, Ann Sophia, High Life in New York, page 42:
      […] so it wasn't to be expected that I should not feel disagreeable when the two got their dander up, and went into such a tantrum with each other.
    • 2009, Paul "Professor Elemental" Alborough and Tom Caruana (lyrics), “Fighting Trousers”, in The Indifference Engine, performed by Professor Elemental:
      Sorry, I'm sorry Geoffrey / but it gets my goat / It gets my dander right up!

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