To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.
Sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation.
1 Others hope a new generation of leaders could yet grasp the nettle .
2 Now the time had come, Mr Quinn declared, to grasp the nettle .
3 The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
4 So out of the nettle danger we may pluck the flower safety.
5 From the nettle Change I have tried to pluck the flower Security.
6 For two days Corker's nettle - rash grew worse, then it began to subside.
7 The sting of nettle , perhaps you know, is a very uncomfortable pain.
8 She recoiled with a fine horror which stung me like a nettle .
9 Aunt Millie's scorn stung me like a nettle , and I hated her.
10 I will have nettle tea, a boiled egg, and bread with butter.
11 Don't believe that old nonsense about grasping the nettle ; it still hurts.
12 Responsibility, however is the bitter seed, the nettle that nobody wants to grasp.
13 Please, Minister, grasp the nettle and introduce a range of repressive anti-smoking measures.
14 She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible.
15 Nobody in authority seems willing to grasp the nettle for once and all.
16 But I wish there was not a nettle in the world.
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