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get someone's Irish up
vs
pester
get someone's Irish up
verb
To anger or annoy someone.
pester
verb
To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
noun
A bother or nuisance.
How often have the words
get someone's Irish up
and
pester
occurred in a corpus of books?
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