get someone's back up

English

Verb

get someone 's back up

(idiomatic) To annoy or anger a person, either deliberately or inadvertently.
That joke really got my boss's back up.
- 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.

Synonyms

get someone's dander up, get someone's Irish up

See also

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