Jemandem auf den Keks gehen

Meaning: To get on someone's nerves.

Language: German

Literally: To go on someone's biscuit

Category: Food & Drink

Origin: Modern German slang in which 'Keks' jokingly means the head, so getting on it means grating on someone.

More idioms — Food & Drink

• Estar frito — To be fed up or worn out.
• Tener la sartén por el mango — To be the one in control.
• Седьмая вода на киселе — A very distant relative.
• 누워서 떡 먹기 — An extremely easy task.
• 호박이 넝쿨째 굴러 들어왔다 — Unexpected great fortune fell into your lap.
• Een appeltje voor de dorst — Savings put by for hard times.

More German idioms

• Einen Kater haben — To have a hangover.
• die Nase voll haben — To be fed up or exhausted by something.
• Dampf ablassen — To release pent-up emotion or frustration.
• Salz in die Wunde streuen — To deliberately make someone's pain or humiliation worse.
• die Suppe versalzen — To ruin a plan or situation through careless excess.
• vor den Kopf stoßen — To offend or affront someone.

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