Sentence examples for their back up from inspiring English sources

"All I can think is that I got their back up and this is how they respond.

It's very easy, though, for people to get their back up and say, in so many words, get out of my sandbox.

"No!" says Kerr. "Unless that's part of the review process in your organisation, flipping comments around onto your boss will only get their back up and make you look overly defensive and unwilling to accept feedback".

"To stand up and say, 'One message is we want to help and the other message is the government is incompetent, and oh, by the way, tomorrow we're giving a Congressional medal to Aung San Suu Kyi,' well, that gets their back up," Mr. Charny said.

Some guys love the idea of proposing but then there are others who get their back up at the idea.

World leaders will get their back up when they read what is said about them.

But they already have their backs up on the issue of repertory.

Listeners can get their backs up: You can't fool me.

Then they got their backs up, and that led to a series of stubborn encounters that resulted in a failed foreign policy".

"We found that when we tried to extend the discussion from nonproliferation concerns to environment and safety, everybody got their backs up," he says.

A lot of officers, especially those earning the big bucks, got their backs up because they were no longer eligible.