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get on someone's nerves

get on someone's nerves verb: to annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.

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.
    • There’s an insect buzzing around in my bedroom tonight, and it’s really getting on my nerves.
    • Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

get on someone's nerves meaning in Thai

get on someone's nerves in Thai

annoy or irritate
กวนประสาท

Synonyms of get on someone's nerves

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Forms of get on someone's nerves

third-person singular presentgets on someone's nerves
present participlegetting on someone's nerves
pastgot on someone's nerves
past participle UKgot on someone's nerves
past participle USgotten on someone's nerves

Questions about get on someone's nerves

What does get on someone's nerves mean?
Get on someone's nerves means to annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
What is get on someone's nerves in Thai?
Get on someone's nerves in Thai is กวนประสาท. See Get on someone's nerves meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is get on someone's nerves?
Get on someone's nerves is a verb.
What is the past tense of get on someone's nerves?
The past tense of get on someone's nerves is got on someone's nerves.

Words near get on someone's nerves in the dictionary

  1. get on like a house on fire
  2. get on someone's bad side
  3. get on someone's case
  4. get on someone's grill
  5. get on someone's last nerve
  6. get on someone's nerves
  7. get on someone's tits
  8. get on someone's wick
  9. get on someone's wrong side
  10. get on the end of
  11. get on the stick

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