get on one's nerves
Example Sentences
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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)
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
Impossible that a chair should get on one's nerves!
From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold
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
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
