What slang or figures of speech "raise your hackles" or annoy you?

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“raise your hackles” annoys me ;) y’all really bothers me though. ain’t get’s me too. figures of speech? I’ll have to think about that part. when people say ”..you know” more than once every ten minutes. and then using ”...like” as a linguistic crutch. “I was like, ‘excuse me biiitch I cn like wear whatevs that i wnt, and like, who cares if my skirt iz shorter thn ur belt, that like, just means I gotz hawter legs thn u lol4rl, like, pce betch”

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