get under someone's skinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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get under someone's skin (third-person singular simple present gets under someone's skin, present participle getting under someone's skin, simple past got under someone's skin, past participle (英国用法) got under someone's skin or (米国用法) gotten under someone's skin)

2. (idiomatic) To irritate someone.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 15, in A Poor Wise Man:

     [T]his Bolshevist stuff gets under my skin. I've got a home and a family here. I started in to work when I was thirteen, and all I've got I've made and saved right here.

   • 1929, Edgar Wallace, chapter 57, in The Black:

     She could get under his skin and drag on the raw places.

4. (idiomatic) To make a memorable impression or have a strong effect on someone; to impact someone's feelings, especially when such an effect is not expected or wanted.
   • 2003 July 28, James Poniewozik, “Body Shop”, in TIME‎^[1], archived from the original on 2012 January 30:

     Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.

   • 2023 February 17, Nina Lakhani, “Down to Earth: The Arizona teen whose death in extreme heat is a warning of tragic things to come”, in The Guardian‎^[2], ISSN 0261-3077:

     More than 400 people died from heat in 2022, but there was one story, an African American teenager called Caleb Blair, which got under my skin.

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• get in someone's hair