get someone's back up
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get someone's back up
- (idiomatic) To annoy or anger someone.
- 1970, James N. Casavis, Principal's Guidelines for Action in Parent Conferences, →ISBN, page 121:
- Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.
- That joke really got my boss's back up.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:annoy and Thesaurus:enrage
Related terms
- have one's back up