get on one's nerves
Example Sentences
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Impossible that a chair should get on one's nerves!
From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold
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
His gaiety does not get on one's nerves as does that of some—perhaps most—professional jokers: neither, as is too frequently the case with them, does it bore.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George
It had been what might be called a rather full day, and the wail of approaching projectiles began to get on one's nerves.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Ruhl, Arthur
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
