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单词 rub someone (or rub someone up) the wrong way
释义

rub someone (or British rub someone up) the wrong way

Irritate or repel someone (as by stroking a cat against the lie of its fur): he had a cold manner that rubbed people the wrong way...
  • They just rub me up the wrong way.
  • But I don't think for a minute that he's no good, he just rubs me up the wrong way.
  • Also, the actress really rubs me the wrong way somehow.

Synonyms

irritate, annoy, irk, vex, provoke, displease, exasperate, infuriate, get on someone's nerves, get/put someone's back up, put out, pique, upset, nettle, needle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise, try someone's patience;
jar on, grate on
informal aggravate, get, get to, bug, miff, peeve, rile, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get up someone's nose, hack off, get someone's goat
British informal nark, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, wind up, get across
North American informal rankle, ride, gravel
vulgar slang piss off
British vulgar slang get on someone's tits
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp
See parent entry: rub
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