rub someone the wrong way

(verb) to annoy or bother someone

Example Sentences:

My younger sister rubs me the wrong way. I find her so annoying!

A: How is your new roommate?
B: He keeps rubbing me the wrong way.
A: Why? What is he doing?
B: He’s always having parties, being messy, eating my food….

There’s nothing really wrong with her, she just rubbed me the wrong way when we first met.

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From the Blogs:

Claims of friction on “Sex and the City” set rub wrong way

Similar idioms:

1. get to
2. needle
3. rub salt into the wound
4. bug
5. get in one’s hair
6. get on one’s nerves
7. get under one’s skin
8. bark up the wrong tree
9. get in one’s face
10. start off on the wrong foot
11. sort out
12. hook up
13. figure out
14. get up on the wrong side of the bed