rattle someone's cage
• anger or irritate someone.
• "put the pressure on him—rattle his cage"
Similar:
anger,
annoy,
antagonize,
provoke,
vex,
irritate,
offend,
aggravate,
rile,
needle,
get someone's back up,
make someone's hackles rise,
rub up the wrong way,
ruffle someone's feathers,
get in someone's hair,
get someone's dander up,
get under someone's skin,
nark,
get on someone's wick,
get up someone's nose,
