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get on someone's nerves

idiom/ɡɛt ɔn ˈsʌmwʌnz nɜrvz/

to annoy someone

His negative attitude to pretty much everything is really getting on my nerves.

word origin — From the 19th century — based on early medical ideas that nerves carry irritation directly to the mind.