rubbed the wrong way
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And, in case someone is rubbed the wrong way, can you think of a good thing to say to smooth it over?
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2015
Much of psychiatry's technical jargon has been taken over and rubbed the wrong way by laymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"This is a place where he is often rubbed the wrong way."
From Time Magazine Archive
As the President's advance agent on railroad policy, he went about addressing groups of oldtime railroad executives who were often rubbed the wrong way by his didactic manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
These lessons were a nerve-racking experience from which I used to emerge with my feathers all rubbed the wrong way from the strain of trying to imitate the intangible differences between the various French "e's."
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
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