get under someone's skin

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Irritate someone, as in She really knows how to get under my skin with her nagging. This expression no doubt alludes to burrowing or stinging insects that cause itching or similar skin irritations. [Late 1800s]

Obsess someone or affect someone's deep feelings, as in Jean's really gotten under his skin; he misses her terribly. Cole Porter used this sense in his love song, “I've Got You Under My Skin” (1936).

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“Someone is determined to keep Bill Cosby off TV,” she continued.
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Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
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The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.
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The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
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Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
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For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.
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