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get on one's nerves









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"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 Laura Lee Hope

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 Sir Hugh Walpole

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 Arthur Ruhl

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 Elliott O'Donnell

Impossible that a chair should get on one's nerves!

From The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett


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