get someone's back up
verb1
Idiomatic To annoy or anger someone.
- That joke really got my boss's back up.
- Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.1970, James N. Casavis, Principal's Guidelines for Action in Parent Conferences, →ISBN, page 121:
- Synonyms
- annoy and Thesaurus:enrage
- Related terms
- have one's back up