raise someone's hackles

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"Every time I hear him talk, he just raises my hackles."
"Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less—my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine."
"Google announced its breakthrough in a paper published in the science journal Nature. And its claims have raised the hackles of researchers at competing companies who believe the Silicon Valley giant is inflating its accomplishment."
"View the film now and it’s not hard to see what raised the hackles of such groups."

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