rub up the wrong way

Meaning

1. Oxford42% of films

   to make sb annoyed or angry, often without intending to, by doing or saying sth that offends them

   I've rubbed you the wrong way.

   Now don t take this the wrong way

In the movies · 12

• I've rubbed you the wrong way.Cleopatra1963
• Now don t take this the wrong wayThe Interview2014
• I mean, it's no wonder he and I rub each other up the wrong way.Downton Abbey: A New Era2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton

From the same entry

• rub nose in it
• rub salt into the wound
• rub shoulders with
• not have two beans, brain cells, to rub together
• rub along
• rub down
• rub down
• rub it in
• rub off
• rub off
• rub out
• rub out

More idioms

• a head
• by heart
• in a row
• be good news
• the other way round
• catch your breath
• stand in way
• come to the same thing
• come again
• mind you
• get away with murder
• be in a minority