[Idiom] idioms meaning "to irritate or annoy someone"

[Olenek]

Hi,

I've found some idioms meaning "to irritate or annoy someone":

1) "To get/put someone's back up";
2) "To get someone's dander up" (some people say "gander up");
3) "To ruffle someone’s feathers";
4) "To raise someone’s hackles";
5) "To make someone's blood boil";
6) "To get someone’s goat";
7) "To get on someone’s wick";
8) "To get in someone’s hair";
9) "To drive someone up the wall";
10) "To drive someone to a fury";
11) "To be like a red rag to a bull".

Which of these idioms do you use/ hear?
Do you use other phrases with the same sense?

Many Thanks for all your answers!

 

[freezeframe]

3) "To ruffle someone’s feathers"; I hear this from more "refined people" but this is for kind of mild annoyance.

5) "To make someone's blood boil"; Yes. But not very often.
6) "To get someone’s goat"; I think I heard this somewhere. I personally wouldn't say this.

8) "To get in someone’s hair"; Yes.
9) "To drive someone up the wall"; Yes. This one I use a lot.

The one I use most often is "he pissed me off!" "this really pisses me off!"

Also, "this is driving me nuts/crazy".

Some people say "this is driving me bonkers".

Someone who's annoying is "pain in the neck" or (the less polite version) "pain in the ass".

 

[SanMar]

The one I use most often is "he pissed me off!" "this really pisses me off!"

Also, "this is driving me nuts/crazy".

Some people say "this is driving me bonkers".

Someone who's annoying is "pain in the neck" or (the less polite version) "pain in the ass".

I pretty much agree with Freezeframe. All I'd add is royal.

" What a royal pain in the ass he is."

'Royal" has nothing to do with status instead it just indicates intensity or "specialness" (even more of a pain than usual or typically expected).
Fairly well known but not used that often anymore, at least not where I am of course!

Not a teacher.

 

[Verona_82]

If you have a pet peeve, there's something that gets you really annoyed (peeved).

P.S. no s**t -containing idioms?

 

[freezeframe]

P.S. no s**t -containing idioms?

Turtles annoy the sh*t out of me.

:-D

 

[freezeframe]

A politer version of "piss off" is "tick off".

 

[SanMar]

also....

He is grating my (f**king) nerves!
I use this one a lot.

"proper way" is grate/ing on my nerves

Not a teacher.

 

[dangauss]

To bug someone is often heard in America.

Stop bugging me!

 

[konungursvia]

A high school friend in Brussels, who hailed from Detroit, used to say:

"Youre steimin' on my skitch!"

But I think that's a rare one.

 

[Raymott]

You're giving me the sh*ts.

 

[tks499]

thanks a lot

 

[dasy2k1]

You're giving me the sh*ts.

certainly in British English this doesn't mean to annoy someone, rather it means to scare someone normally with nervousness rather than terror.
(or literally to give them diarrhea)


eg. The English exam next week is giving me the s***ts
would mean that you were very nervous about the exam.


compare "To Sh*t Bricks"


Not a teacher, but a native (British) English speaker.

 

[5jj]

You're getting up my nose.
You're getting on my t*ts.