- get on someone's wick
- get on (someone's) wick
British & Australian, informal
to annoy someone.
She'd been asking me questions all day and it was starting to get on my wick.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
get on someone's wick
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get on someone's wick — (informal) To irritate someone • • • Main Entry: ↑wick * * * get on someone’s wick british very informal phrase to annoy someone Thesaurus: to make someone angry or annoyedsynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
get on someone's wick — ► get on someone s wick Brit. informal annoy someone. Main Entry: ↑wick … English terms dictionary
get on someone's wick Brit. — get on someone s wick Brit. informal annoy someone. → wick … English new terms dictionary
get on someone's wick — verb to annoy or upset someone, usually by repeated disagreeable actions. His silly questions are really getting on my wick … Wiktionary
get on someone's wick — British very informal to annoy someone … English dictionary
get on someone's nerves — IRRITATE, annoy, irk, anger, bother, vex, provoke, displease, exasperate, infuriate, gall, pique, needle, ruffle someone s feathers, try someone s patience; jar on, grate on, rankle; Brit. rub up the wrong way; informal aggravate, get to, bug,… … Useful english dictionary
Get on one's wick — irritate someone … Dictionary of Australian slang
get on one's wick — Australian Slang irritate someone … English dialects glossary
get on one's wick/tits — vb British to irritate, annoy or vex. The wick in question, unknown to many speakers, is a now rather archaic shortening of Hamp ton Wick, rhyming slang for prick (which is nowadays more usually shortened to hampton). In spite of the implied… … Contemporary slang
get on wick — get on (someone s) wick British & Australian, informal to annoy someone. She d been asking me questions all day and it was starting to get on my wick … New idioms dictionary
