enojar
cause + anger ; cross ; irritate ; antagonise [antagonize, -USA] ; rub + Nombre + up the wrong way ; rattle ; roil ; gall ; rile ; peeve ; enrage ; exasperate ; raise + Posesivo + hackles ; vex ; hit + a hot button ; put + Posesivo + nose out of joint.
The decision to introduce payments for ILL in Australia has caused much concern and a lot of anger.
There's more to it than that - he becomes vicious, cutting people up behind their backs if they cross him in any way.
Their education must accordingly be designed to prepare them for that future, however much this may irritate the myopics whose only concern is for the present.
Researchers expect librarians to be factually knowledgeable, welcoming, helpful and supportive rather than 'weird', 'snooty' or 'easily antagonized'.
Relations between the two countries would now be difficult as our Prime Minister had rubbed theirs up the wrong way over ridiculous matters.
The rumours of his departure rattled the talented youngster a little bit.
Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
Now is not the time for superfluous rantings intended to rile the public.
Things like talking over the performances and cutting to commercials in the middle of performances were really peaving the people who watched.
On a recent field trip, he drank too much and became enraged with another student by whom he felt insulted.
Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
But be prepared to raise some hackles if you take this approach, because it is essential you do it openly and not behind your boss' back.
The powers-that-be at ISU seem to be a little vexed by the attention they're getting for denying tenure to astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez.
She's relatively patient, but when you hit a hot button with her, she can go from calm to stark-raving mad and cursing in about .00001 seconds .
In petty things he tended to be a poor loser; a defeat in a tennis game tended to put his nose out of joint.
enojar a Alguien
ruffle + Nombre + feathers
She's taken to her blog to defend her new music video, because she's sure the content matter is going to 'ruffle some feathers'.
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become + chagrined
grow + irritable
lose + Posesivo + temper
get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist
get + Posesivo + knickers in a bundle
get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle
get + angry
feel + angry
feel + annoyed
take + the huff
get + Posesivo + knickers in a knot
get + (all) bunged-up
In the course of my explanation I became not only chagrined, but ashamed for our profession and for how, in this particular case, rules had made finding the material that this person wanted so difficult.
The vendor's engineers will grow irritable unless you care for them.
His father gave him a bag of nails, and told him to drive a nail in the fence in the backyard whenever he lost his temper.
The trouble began when some journalists got their knickers in a twist over Reich's unusual theories - one of these being the notion that every individual should have a healthy satisfying sex life.
Now before anyone gets their knickers in a bundle over that statement let me clarify.
I cannot for the life of me understand what you see in the Serb's cause that gets your panties in a bundle.
The second thing is being good-humoured, not to get angry or pontificate or be dogmatic.
We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.
Is it wrong that I feel annoyed when guests at my house start texting in the middle of a conversation?.
She is also capable of incredible tetchiness and can generally take the huff with you over slights you never knew existed.
Darlene's got her knickers in a knot because mischievous little Molly has the look of a girl that would go all the way on the first date.
Look, I can see you getting all bunged-up for them making you wear these kinda clothes.
enojarse con Alguien
vent + Posesivo + spleen (on)
The review is incompetent and irresponsible, apparently motivated by a need to vent spleen, and characterized by an amount of ill-feeling out of place in a scholarly journal.
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be irritated by/at
As a reader of books, I am frequently irritated by 'introductions', which appear to me to have no other purpose that to hinder me from getting into the meat of the text.
