See get under someone's skin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for get under someone's skin meaning in English (3.8kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "gets under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "getting under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "got under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "got under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"UK",
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gotten under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"US",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "get<,,got,gotUK:gottenUS> under someone's skin"
},
"expansion": "get under someone's skin (third-person singular simple present gets under someone's skin, present participle getting under someone's skin, simple past got under someone's skin, past participle (UK) got under someone's skin or (US) gotten under someone's skin)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 15, in A Poor Wise Man",
"text": "[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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1929, Edgar Wallace, chapter 57, in The Black",
"text": "She could get under his skin and drag on the raw places.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
"text": "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.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To irritate someone."
],
"id": "en-get_under_someone's_skin-en-verb-en:irritate",
"links": [
[
"irritate",
"irritate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To irritate someone."
],
"senseid": [
"en:irritate"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "10 90",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003 July 28, James Poniewozik, “Body Shop”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2012-01-30",
"text": "Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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, →ISSN",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-get_under_someone's_skin-en-verb-en:make_a_memorable_impression",
"links": [
[
"memorable",
"memorable"
],
[
"impression",
"impression"
],
[
"effect",
"effect"
],
[
"impact",
"impact"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"word": "get in someone's hair"
}
],
"senseid": [
"en:make a memorable impression"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "get underneath someone's skin"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-get under someone's skin.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "get under someone's skin"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "gets under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "getting under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "got under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "got under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"UK",
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gotten under someone's skin",
"tags": [
"US",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "get<,,got,gotUK:gottenUS> under someone's skin"
},
"expansion": "get under someone's skin (third-person singular simple present gets under someone's skin, present participle getting under someone's skin, simple past got under someone's skin, past participle (UK) got under someone's skin or (US) gotten under someone's skin)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "get in someone's hair"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 15, in A Poor Wise Man",
"text": "[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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1929, Edgar Wallace, chapter 57, in The Black",
"text": "She could get under his skin and drag on the raw places.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 August 27, Uki Goñi, “The ‘false prophet’ v the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
"text": "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.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To irritate someone."
],
"links": [
[
"irritate",
"irritate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To irritate someone."
],
"senseid": [
"en:irritate"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003 July 28, James Poniewozik, “Body Shop”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2012-01-30",
"text": "Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "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, →ISSN",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"memorable",
"memorable"
],
[
"impression",
"impression"
],
[
"effect",
"effect"
],
[
"impact",
"impact"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"senseid": [
"en:make a memorable impression"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-get under someone's skin.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/En-au-get_under_someone%27s_skin.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"uncommon"
],
"word": "get underneath someone's skin"
}
],
"word": "get under someone's skin"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.