get on one's nerves
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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
Impossible that a chair should get on one's nerves!
From The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett
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
"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
It rises so constantly that after a time the very words "der Mond" get on one's nerves.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
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