get on one's nerves
Example Sentences
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"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
This sort of thing amuses me, as a rule; but I must admit that Mr. Cullen is apt to get on one's nerves.
From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Their slouchiness, however, will in the end get on one’s nerves quite as much as the “eternal” attention of the Japanese.
From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John
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
