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Get on someone's wick

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To annoy or upset someone, especially by repeated disagreeable actions. UK, colloquial

    "His silly questions are really getting on my wick."

Etymology

Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang states that wick is a shortening for Hampton Wick as rhyming slang for prick, i.e. penis.

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