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grind one's gears
vs
harsh one's mellow
grind one's gears
verb
To annoy or irritate one.
harsh one's mellow
verb
To spoil one's good mood or to annoy one.
How often have the words
grind one's gears
and
harsh one's mellow
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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