get under one's skin

1. 1.

   irritate

   “Her childish behavior really get to me”

   “His lying really gets me”

   Synonymsget

   Broaderannoy

Questions about get under one's skin

What does get under one's skin mean?

get under one's skin means "irritate".

What is another word for get under one's skin?

Close synonyms include get. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get under one's skin a common word?

get under one's skin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.