get under someone's skin

English

(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.
- 2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:
  The pope has not said if Milei’s tirades have got under his skin. “I know they say things about me but I ignore it for my mental health,” he said in a television interview. “I will pray for them.”
(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^[2], 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^[3], →ISSN:
  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.