exasperar
outrage + Posesivo + every fibre ; roil ; drive + Alguien + (a)round the bend ; rile ; enrage ; exasperate ; grind on + Posesivo + nerves ; piss + Nombre + off ; raise + Posesivo + hackles ; make + Nombre + impatient ; vex ; hit + a hot button ; rankle ; push + Posesivo + buttons ; drive + Alguien + up the pole.
And yet the thought of what he was being asked to do to salvage the jeopardized budget outraged his every fiber.
Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
If there is one behavior that most parents, caregivers and teachers would readily admit drives them around the bend it's whining.
Now is not the time for superfluous rantings intended to rile the public.
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.
We can often see in someone's face, or hear in his response to us, the times when we are grinding on his nerves.
And he isn't one to squander an opportunity to take credit for an operation that will piss off Washington.
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.
Usually, kids tend to be active making them impatient in a confined space like your car.
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 .
Now it appears that everyday citizens' sensibilities have been rankled by the campaign.
You have got to stand up and put her in her place until then she will keep trying to push your buttons.
The two boys rapidly adopted Ardena as their 'baby sister' and teased, harassed her and drove her up the pole as brothers are supposed to.
exasperar a Alguien
drive + Alguien + up a/the wall
drive + Alguien + to despair
get on + Posesivo + nerves
drive + Alguien + mad
drive + Alguien + insane
drive + Alguien + crazy
drive + Alguien + nuts
drive + Alguien + potty
drive + Alguien + dotty
unhinge
get on tits
Your exaggerated coughs and annoyed looks and the oh so dramatic flailing about of your hands and arms when he lights up drive him up a wall.
Ironically, Weber later changed his attitude and stated that 'a passion for bureaucracy is enough to drive one to despair'.
But the old printers were men who got on each other's nerves and lost their tempers; who had moments of disastrous clumsiness; and who improvised and botched without hesitation whenever their tools or materials did not precisely meet the needs of the moment.
This is a superb translation of the memoirs of the wife of Sado, the crown prince of Korea, who was driven mad and became a serial killer.
As 'The Police' put it in their song, now a long time ago: 'Too much information running through my brain - Too much information driving me insane'.
Those who are 'perfectionists' in such things will want to drive you crazy worrying about 'what if two people go out together' or 'it won't be accurate because some users go out for a smoke and then come right back in' or 'what about kids who run in and out' and so forth.
Jack's father and wife drove him nuts.
I can understand why he wants to go - he's normally very active and being stuck indoors during the day is driving him potty.
She and her neighbours are being driven dotty by a pesky crow.
Likewise unscrupulous people frequently seek to pursue their agenda against our better judgement by unhinging us.
Best thing you can do to get on his tits is to be really nice and polite to him.
exasperarse
chafe (at)
lose + Posesivo + patience
chafe at + the bit
champ at + the bit
chomp at + the bit
strain at + the leash
The protesters chafe at what they see as the military and unelected royalist aristocracy meddling in politics.
He has never refused to answer any question, however provocative it might be, nor has he ever lost his patience.
He was the perfect agent but you got the feeling that underneath it all he was chafing at the bit.
But when the first game does get underway, this new team will be champing at the bit to start leaving an impression in people's minds.
It's that time of year when many of you are chomping at the bit to fertilize your lawn.
When rulers and military leaders spend so much on building up a military force, they are sometimes straining at the leash to use it.
exasperarse por
become + carried away by
It is easy to become carried away by the sheer size of the so-called 'information explosion' and to regard the growth of literature as a phenomenon as threatening to civilization as a virulent epidemic or the 'population explosion' in the third world.