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bedevil
vs
get someone's Irish up
bedevil
verb
To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
To perplex or bewilder.
get someone's Irish up
verb
To anger or annoy someone.
How often have the words
bedevil
and
get someone's Irish up
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)