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Phrase: Grate on your nerves
Have you seen Instagram recently?
You have?
Doesn’t it just grate on your nerves?
Instagram seems to be full of shiny, happy people.
They say it’s important not to let things get to you, but sometimes it’s the little things that grate on your nerves.
When something grates on your nerves, it irritates or annoys you.
It could be someone’s strange laugh or incorrectly parked cars.
It’s like having a tiny pebble in your shoe.
You know it is there.
It’s not painful, but just annoying.
You want to take off your shoe and shake out the pebble, but there’s nowhere to sit, so you keep on walking while that little pebble grates on your nerves.
Yeah, Instagram is like that sometimes.
In the Big Apple, one of the things that grates on peoples’ nerves is tourists walking on the sidewalk with luggage on wheels.
They take up too much space, and they’re too slow.
It’s a little thing such as that that which grates on everyone’s nerves.
Here’s another one.
Plastic bags at the movies!
There’s a reason they sell popcorn and not potato chips in theatres.
Yet, now and then, some weirdo sneaks in a bag of chips.
Don’t tell me that it was you!
Then we have to go to the gym.
One of the most irritating things at the gym is people who never wipe down a machine after using it.
You wait half an hour for a muscle-bound guy who already looks like a statue of Apollo and then almost drowns in a puddle of his sweat.
It grates on your nerves after a while.
Good thing I don’t go to the gym.
Anyways, those are just a few of the first-world problems that may have grated on your nerves before the world changed.
At least we don’t have to worry about those things anymore.
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