set one's back up
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And he does not "set one's back up" like René, or, in my case at least, produce boredom like most of the other "World-pain"-ers.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
"Yes," said Erica, musingly, "to be libeled does set one's back up dreadfully, and to be much praised humbles one to the very dust."
From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna
To set one's back up against such remarkable deeds as these, I call feeble or malicious nonsense.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Bache, Constance
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