See frustrate on Wiktionary
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"word": "trouble"
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"word": "try one's patience"
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"word": "chap someone's hide"
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{
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"word": "get someone's dander up"
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"word": "get someone's goat"
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"word": "get someone's Irish up"
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"word": "get someone's nanny"
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"word": "get under one's goat"
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"word": "rub someone the wrong way"
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"sense": "to disappoint or defeat",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to disappoint or defeat",
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"sense": "to disappoint or defeat",
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"sense": "to disappoint or defeat",
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"roman": "osuetjavam",
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