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Meaning of get someone's dander up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To anger or annoy someone.

idiomatic

Examples

“Miss⟳ Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]”
“[…] so it wasn't to be expected that I should not feel⟳ disagreeable when the two got their dander up, and went into such a tantrum with each other.”
“Sorry, I'm sorry Geoffrey / but it gets my goat / It gets my dander right up!”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

get someone's drift get someone's goat get someone's Irish up get someone's neurons firing get someone's shirt out get something over with

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