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exacerbate
vs
put someone's nose out of joint
exacerbate
verb
To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate.
put someone's nose out of joint
How often have the words
exacerbate
and
put someone's nose out of joint
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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