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Get someone's dander up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To anger or annoy someone. idiomatic

    "Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]"

Etymology

US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.

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