get someone's back up
• make someone annoyed or angry.
Similar:
annoy,
irritate,
vex,
make angry,
make cross,
anger,
exasperate,
irk,
gall,
pique,
put out,
displease,
antagonize,
get on someone's nerves,
rub up the wrong way,
ruffle,
ruffle someone's feathers,
make someone's hackles rise,
raise someone's hackles,
enrage,
infuriate,
madden,
make someone's blood boil,
drive to distraction,
goad,
provoke,
aggravate,
peeve,
hassle,
miff,
rile,
nettle,
needle,
get,
get to,
bug,
hack off,
get under someone's skin,
get in someone's hair,
get someone's goat,
rattle someone's cage,
drive mad/crazy,
drive round the bend/twist,
drive up the wall,
make someone see red,
wind up,
nark,
get across,
get on someone's wick,
get up someone's nose,
give someone the hump,
tee off,
tick off,
burn up,
rankle,
ride,
gravel,
give someone the pip,
get someone's dander up,
exacerbate,
hump,
rasp,
piss off,
get on someone's tits,