put someone's back up

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put someone's back up (third-person singular simple present puts someone's back up, present participle putting someone's back up, simple past and past participle put someone's back up)

1. (idiomatic) Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.

   You really put her back up there, John.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section II, page 25:

     [T]hat is exactly the kind of remark that is guaranteed to put certain masters' backs up, isn't it?