get someone's dander up en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.
Meanings
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(idiomatic) To anger or annoy someone.
Sorry, I'm sorry Geoffrey / but it gets my goat / It gets my dander right up!
2009, “Fighting Trousers”, in Paul "Professor Elemental" Alborough, Tom Caruana (lyrics), The Indifference Engine, performed by Professor Elemental:[…] 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.
1854, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 42:Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]
1846, Harriot F. Curtis, Jessie's Flirtations, page 89:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| got someone's dander up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| got someone's dander up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gets someone's dander up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| gotten someone's dander up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | US | lexicographic |
| getting someone's dander up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |