Annoy Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard (misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody)
• Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Cold calling
• Devil in Disguise (Elvis Presley song)
• Devil may care
• Don't yank my chain
• Driven to distraction
• Driven to drink
• Driven up the wall
• Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Full of the devil
• Get at
• Get in your hair
• Get on your nerves
• Get under your feet
• Get under your skin
• Get up your nose
• Give someone hell
• Give the Devil his due
• Go to the Devil
• Got the hump
• Grasp the nettle
• He must needs go that the Devil drives
• He who sups with the Devil should use a long spoon
• He will give the Devil his due
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• In league with the Devil
• In your face
• In your hair
• Keep on about
• Keep on at
• Like a rag doll
• Like the devil
• Little devil
• Lose your rag
• Luck of the Devil
• Make a deal with the devil
• Needs must when the Devil drives
• Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
• Pester power
• Play devil's advocate
• Push someone's buttons
• Put your back up
• Rag trade
• Rag, tag and bobtail
• Raise the devil
• Rub up the wrong way
• Sell your soul to the devil
• Set your teeth on edge
• Speak of the devil
• Supping with the Devil
• Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones song)
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Tell the truth and shame the Devil
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Devil has all the best tunes
• The Devil is in the detail
• The Devil made me do it
• The Devil take the hindmost
• The Devil take you
• The Devil to pay
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Pazmanian Devil (Nickname of Vinny Paz)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The devil looks after his own
• Ticked off
• What the devil?
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
• Wind someone up (deliberately draw attention to something that will create agitation)