| 单词 | to get on a person's nerves |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get on a person's nerves P4. to get on a person's nerves: to (begin to) be a source of irritation or anxiety to a person.In more recent use the commonest implication is of annoyance or irritation rather than of worry or fear. ΚΠ 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray xix. 325 Perhaps you are tired of Gladys? I thought you would be. Her clever tongue gets on one's nerves. 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. 125 This flying gets on one's nerves. 1920 B. Cronin Timber Wolves ii. 34 Hotel hogs, I call 'em. Come in and jolly a chap as if they owned the whole joke. Gets on your nerves when you've been out of your bed all night. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman iii. 99 I remember, when I came home for the holidays How it used to get on my nerves, when I saw you Always sitting there with your nose in a book. 1972 J. Wilson Hide & Seek vii. 118 Alice and I are really close, even if we do get on each other's nerves sometimes. 2000 New Republic 18 Dec. 30/2 One of the..motifs of Sylvia Plath's journals..is Ted's greasy hair and ragged nails..getting on her nerves. < as lemmas |
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