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View synonyms for get a rise out of

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Elicit an angry or irritated reaction, as in His teasing always got a rise out of her . This expression alludes to the angler's dropping a fly in a likely spot in the hope that a fish will rise to this bait.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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