get on one's nerves
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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
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
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
