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get on someone's nerves
vs
try one's patience
get on someone's nerves
verb
To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
try one's patience
verb
To be difficult to deal with; annoy.
How often have the words
get on someone's nerves
and
try one's patience
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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