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单词 get under someone's skin
释义

get under someone's skin

informal
1Annoy or irritate someone intensely: it was the sheer effrontery of them which got under my skin...
  • What's most annoying is that it seems to get under your skin - not irritating like a rash, more like an itch that needs to be scratched.
  • What gets under our skin, aggravates, infuriates, frustrates and makes us hate is of the same seed that also begets love and divine revelation.
  • Ugh, someone here is getting under my skin, really starting to annoy me, and I can't put my figure on why/how exactly.

Synonyms

irritate, annoy, gall, irk, get/put someone's back up, pique, rankle with, nettle, needle, bother, vex, provoke, displease, upset, offend, affront, anger, exasperate, disgruntle, ruffle, get on someone's nerves, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, raise someone's hackles, rub up the wrong way
informal peeve, aggravate, miff, get, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, hack off, get someone's goat
British informal nark, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, wind up, get across
North American informal tick off, rankle, ride, gravel
vulgar slang piss off
British vulgar slang get on someone's tits
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp
2Fill someone’s mind in a compelling and persistent way: he had managed to get under my skin—I couldn’t wait to be with him...
  • It gets under your skin and opens up a space that is filled by sadness and silence.
  • His intensely intimate music gets under your skin rather than grabbing you by the lapels.
  • We wanted to make a movie that slowly got under your skin, that was about building, inescapable dread.

Synonyms

obsess, intrigue, captivate, interest greatly, charm;
enthral, enchant, fill someone's mind, mesmerize, hypnotize, entrance
3Reach or display a deep understanding of someone: movies that get under the skin of the British national character...
  • He changed his ways many years ago because a good, decent woman got under his skin and made him understand what love was all about.
  • Then he comes in contact with a woman who gets under his skin.
  • I know it's a cliche but I thought the author really managed to get under Clara 's skin in a way which made us empathise with her.
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