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