词汇 | that gets me |
词源 | that gets me. Get one’s dander up, get one’s Irish up, get one’s Indian up, and even get one’s Ebenezer (Ebenezer was a nick- name for the devil) up, were only a few of the many get me . . . terms meaning “to become angry” that were common in 19th- century America. So common were such terms that that gets me came to mean “that angers or annoys me.” |
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