get on one's nerves

Which is fair enough: The Space Wasps were real sticklers for colony hierarchy, their plan for renovating planets that joined the Interstellar Space Wasp Empire boiled down to “asbestos, and lots of it,” the constant, tinnitus-inducing high-pitched screaming sound their gills made at all times could get on one’s nerves, and as a Catholic I hold no brief for Interstellar Space Wasp theology.

It rises so constantly that after a time the very words "der Mond" get on one's nerves.

But it began to get on one’s nerves to have to expect a billet-doux like the above on your desk at the opening of court each day, when the accused person had had no commitment trial and may have been wholly innocent.

“Well, the great game is always something of a gamble, and being usually played for higher stakes than money, is likely to get on one’s nerves.”

“She is a quiet, lady-like girl, who does not do unexpected things that get on one’s nerves,” Miss Sallie had once explained to Ruth.