raise someone's hackles

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toannoyorangersomeone.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:annoy,Thesaurus:enrageEvery time I hear him talk, he justraises my hackles.1976,Richard Dawkins,The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published2016, page429:Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackleshave alwaysrisenat the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.2019October 23, David Yaffe-Bellany, “Quantum Computing Explained (in Mere Minutes!)”, inNew York Times‎[1]:Google announced its breakthrough in a paper published in the science journal Nature. And its claims haveraised the hacklesof researchers at competing companies who believe the Silicon Valley giant is inflating its accomplishment.2022March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN:View the film now and it’s not hard to see whatraised the hacklesof such groups.

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