• have one's nerves on edge, one's nerves are on edge
• edgily, jumpily, on tiptoe, restlessly
• to aggravate, to annoy, to bug, to excite, to faze, to fidget, to flurry, to fluster, to flutter, to get into sy's hair, to peeve, to rasp sy's feelings, to rattle
• chafing, flutter, jangled nerves, jitter, jumpiness, needle, nerves, nervousness, skittishness, vapours, willies
• aggravating, exasperating, nerve-racking, nettlesome, pesky, tiresome
• to fluster, to fret, to fret oneself, to jitter
• to fray sy's nerves, to stroke sy the wrong way, to stroke sy's hair the wrong way
• to excite, to flurry, to fluster, to string, strung
• to put sy in a flutter, to rough sy up the wrong way
• to beat the devil's tattoo