get the needle
1get the needle — (informal) To be irritated • • • Main Entry: ↑needle …
2get the needle — American to be judicially killed By lethal injection rather than electrocution: And when have they last imposed [the death penalty]?... No one gets the needle in Manhattan. (P. Cornwell, 2000) …
3get the needle — vb British to become irritated, bitter or vindictive. This expression is one of a number referring to needle in the sense of pro voke or annoy. This particular form of words has survived as a working class Londoners phrase since the late 19th… …
4get the needle — Be annoyed …
5The Eye of the Needle — Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1978 by the Penguin Group titled Storm Island. This novel was Follett s first successful, bestselling effort as a novelist, and it… …
6the needle — n British irritation, resentment, provocation. The word has been used in expressions such as take the needle (take offence), give someone the needle and get the (dead) needle since the late 19th century …
7get the dead needle — vb British to become irritated, bitter or vindictive. This expression is one of a number referring to needle in the sense of pro voke or annoy. This particular form of words has survived as a working class Londoners phrase since the late 19th… …
8needle — needlelike, adj. /need l/, n., v., needled, needling. n. 1. a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make… …
9The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation: DVD Premiere — The cover of the special release Operation: DVD Premiere Directed by Bret Haaland Nick Filippi …
10Needle (novel) — Needle   …
