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
"This is a place where he is often rubbed the wrong way."
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of psychiatry's technical jargon has been taken over and rubbed the wrong way by laymen.
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
I wondah if she sees it in my face, and that's what makes her cross and scratchy, like a cat that has had its fur rubbed the wrong way.
From The Little Colonel's Hero by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
