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rub someone up the wrong way
USUK
to annoy someone, often without meaning to, by the way you behave
British. American English says 'rub someone the wrong way'.
In context
His habit of interrupting rubs people up the wrong way at meetings.
I don't know why, but the new manager rubbed me up the wrong way from day one.
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