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get on (one's) nerves get on (one's) nervesTo irritate, grate on, or exasperate one. Nothing personal, but your voice is really getting on my nerves. Tom's been really defiant ever since he started daycare, and it's starting to get on my nerves.See also: get, nerve, onget on someone's nervesIrritate someone, as in His fidgeting gets on the teacher's nerves, or, as T.S. Eliot put it in The Elder Statesman (1959): "How it used to get on my nerves, when I saw you always sitting there with your nose in a book." [c. 1900] See also: get, nerve, onget on someone's nerves INFORMALCOMMON If someone or something gets on your nerves, they irritate you. Camilla likes him but he gets on my nerves. She talks all the time and it gets on my nerves.See also: get, nerve, onget on someone's nerves irritate or annoy someone. informalSee also: get, nerve, onget on somebody’s ˈnerves (informal) annoy somebody a lot: It really gets on my nerves the way he only ever talks about his job and his car. ♢ By the end of the week, they were all getting on each other’s nerves.See also: get, nerve, on get on (someone's) nerves To irritate or exasperate.See also: get, nerve, on |