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get on one's nerves









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It rises so constantly that after a time the very words "der Mond" get on one's nerves.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

Impossible that a chair should get on one's nerves!

From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold

I don't mind France, where you can tell which is the front and which the back, but this kind of thing does get on one's nerves.

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

Not at all a bad chap, but rather apt to get on one's nerves after a while—and he had got on mine—horribly.

From Scottish Ghost Stories by O'Donnell, Elliott

"Really the silence does seem to get on one's nerves," put in Mr. Towne.

From The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida by Hope, Laura Lee




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