10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GET ON SOMEONE'S WICK»
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get on someone's wick in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
get on someone's wick and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... get on someone's quince; get one someone's tits; get on someone's wick; get
someone's goat; get someone's nanny-goat; get someone's shirt out; get up
someone's nose; give someone the pip; nark; piss someone off; rip; tee someone
off; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
... me casse les pieds d'y aller embêter m to annoy empoisonner to get on (
someone's) nerves n'embête pas ta sœur ! ça m'empoisonne d'avoir toute cette
vaisselle à faire tous les jours enquiquiner to get on (someone's) wick ça m'
enquiquine ...
R. E. Batchelor, M. H. Offord, 1993
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... roof rub someone up the wrong way keep your shirt on go spare spit blood vent
your spleen have steam coming out of your ears give me strength! get on
someone's tits throw your toys out of the pram get on someone's wick throw a
wobbly ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... get up someone's nose, hack off, get someone's goat, wind up; Brit. informal
nark, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, get across; N. Amer.
informal tick off, rankle, ride, gravel; vulgar slang piss off; rare exacerbate, hump,
rasp.
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... praxis, precedent, prototype, sample, specimen, standard, type, warning.
exasperate v. aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, enrage, exacerbate, excite,
exulcerate, gall, get, get in someone's hair, get on someone's nerves, get on
someone's wick ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
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The Chambers Dictionary
dip one's wick (coarse slang; of a man) to have sexual intercourse; get on
someone's wick (colloq) to irritate someone. [OE weoce, weoc; allied to Du wick a
roll of lint, Ger Wieche] wick2 wik, (dialect) n a creek. [ON vik a bay] wick1 wik, n a
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Chambers English Thesaurus
... prototype, sample. specimen, standard, type, warnrng. exasperate v aggravate,
anger, annoy, bug, enrage, exacerbate, excite, gall, get, get in someone's hair,
get on someone's nerves, get on someone's wick, get to, goad, incense, inflame,
...
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Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French
7 Pomper l'air à quelqu'un: To 'get on someone's wick', to be a darned nuisance.
Ecoute, mon vieux, tu me pompes l'air! I've just about had as much as I can take
from you! 8 Parler en l'air: To talk without thinking. 9 Se déguiser en courant ...
E A Lovatt Esq, R J H, R. J. H 'erail, 2005
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Chambers concise dictionary
wicked wigeon ♢ dip one's wick slang said of a man: to have sexual intercourse
with someone, get on someone's wick slang to be a source of irritation to them,
wicked /'wikid/ >adj (wickeder, wickedest) 1 evil or sinful; immoral. 2 mischievous
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... Brit. informal nark, get on someone's wick; N. Amer. informal tee off, tick off.
excavate v. unearth, dig up, uncover, reveal, disinter, exhume, dig out, quarry,
mine. exceed v. be more than, be greater than, be over, go beyond, top, surpass.
excel ...
