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get on one's nerves









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Their slouchiness, however, will in the end get on one’s nerves quite as much as the “eternal” attention of the Japanese.

From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John

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

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

From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold

This sort of thing amuses me, as a rule; but I must admit that Mr. Cullen is apt to get on one's nerves.

From An Amiable Charlatan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)




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