Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is get under someone’s skin and its meaning is “irritate, annoy, irk, bother, upset, anger”.
Example Sentence: Still, the Navalny case has stirred something. My Russian friends say it is far too early to know exactly what, but they report a change. Partly it is the effect of prolonged economic malaise (trouble). Partly it is the sheer boredom of a generation whose life prospects have congealed (hardened/stiffened) in the stale (unfresh) air of Putin’s Russia. Partly it is the shrewd (clever) way that Navalny has tunnelled underneath the strongman cult, broken into his gaudy (flashy/showy) palace and got under his skin.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Alexei Navalny has been jailed. But he’ll still be spooking Vladimir Putin, and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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