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get on someone's nerves
vs
get someone's Irish up
get on someone's nerves
verb
To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
get someone's Irish up
verb
To anger or annoy someone.
How often have the words
get on someone's nerves
and
get someone's Irish up
occurred in a corpus of books?
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