get on one's wick/tits

get on one's wick/tits: vb

British

to irritate, annoy or vex. The 'wick' in question, unknown to many speakers, is a now rather archaic shortening of Hamp-ton Wick, rhyming slang for prick (which is nowadays more usually shortened to hampton). In spite of the implied gender difference, both versions of the expres-sion are used indiscriminately by both men and women.

► 'It really gets on my tits when someone calls me a career woman.' (Recorded, female journalist, London, 1986)

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