Thesaurus / get on one's nerves

get on one's nerves

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Every word that now fell from the agitated Empress was balm to the affrighted nerves of her daughter.

The effect was that of a bird of Paradise bringing balm to our overwrought nerves.

He had not taken his nerves into consideration for the simple reason that he had never known that he possessed any.

He said something laughingly to the head guide to the effect that climbing was good sport and a fine test for the nerves.

I am thankful that prolonged mourning is out of date; it made a fright of me and was getting on my nerves.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

It combats ennui, lassitude, and intolerable vacuity, soothing the nerves and diverting attention from self.

And the familiar scenery, together with the wholesome exercise of sculling, acted as a tonic to his nerves.

The nerves of our industrial civilization are worn thin with the rattle of its own machinery.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985