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.
Media:
From the Blogs:
Claims of friction on “Sex and the City” set rub wrong way
Similar idioms:
- get to
- needle
- bug
- get in one’s hair
- rub salt into the wound
- get on one’s nerves
- get under one’s skin
- get in one’s face
- bark up the wrong tree
- hook up
- sort out
- figure out
