get someone's back up

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get someone 's back up

(idiomatic) To annoy or anger someone.
- 1970, James N. Casavis, Principal's Guidelines for Action in Parent Conferences‎, →ISBN, page 121:
  Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.
That joke really got my boss's back up.

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See Thesaurus:annoy and Thesaurus:enrage

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have one's back up

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