get someone's dander up
verbEtymology US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.
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Idiomatic To anger or annoy someone.
- Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]1846, Harriot F. Curtis, Jessie's Flirtations, page 89:
- […] so it wasn't to be expected that I should not feel disagreeable when the two got their dander up, and went into such a tantrum with each other.1854, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 42:
1 more example
- Sorry, I'm sorry Geoffrey / but it gets my goat / It gets my dander right up!2009, “Fighting Trousers”, in Paul "Professor Elemental" Alborough, Tom Caruana (lyrics), The Indifference Engine, performed by Professor Elemental:
- Synonyms
- annoy and Thesaurus:enrage