To get under somebody's skin
- (a)To deceive someone
- (b)To admire someone
- (c)To annoy someone
- (d)To support someone
Answer
C
Why
Correct — C, 'To annoy someone'. To 'get under somebody's skin' most commonly means to irritate or annoy them persistently, which option (c) captures.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)To deceive someone — Deception is a separate idea (e.g. 'pull the wool over the eyes') — the phrase signals irritation, not trickery.
- (b)To admire someone — Wrong emotional direction; the idiom points to annoyance, not admiration.
- (d)To support someone — The opposite tone — getting under someone's skin bothers them rather than backing them up.
Concept
'To get under somebody's skin' means to irritate or annoy them, often repeatedly.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct meaning of the idiom 'get on someone's nerves'.
- (a)To please someone
- (b)To irritate someone
- (c)To confuse someone
- (d)To ignore someone
Answer(b) To irritate someone — the same idea as getting under somebody's skin.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct meaning of the idiom 'rub someone the wrong way'.
- (a)To comfort someone
- (b)To annoy or irritate someone
- (c)To praise someone
- (d)To guide someone
Answer(b) To annoy or irritate someone — a close relative of 'get under somebody's skin'.