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drive to distraction
vs
ruffle someone's feathers
drive to distraction
verb
To annoy (someone) so much that they cannot concentrate.
ruffle someone's feathers
verb
To unease, cause discomfort to someone.
How often have the words
drive to distraction
and
ruffle someone's feathers
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)