raise hackles
raise one's hackles
To make (someone) upset or annoyed; arouse hostility.
Attempts to add new ingredients to the beer raised hackles among all the old brew masters.
raise one's credit
Повысить свой авторитет, вырасти во мнении людей.
He raised his credit.
Он поднял свой авторитет.
raise one's sights
To aim high; be ambitious.
Teenage boys sometimes think too much of themselves and have a tendency to raise their sights too high.
raise one's voice
To speak loudly, as if in anger or in protest.
"I'm sorry, Mom," Peter said. "I didn't mean to raise my voice."
rap one's knuckles
To scold or punish.
The principal rapped our knuckles for cheating on the test.
If you talk back to Dad, you'll get your knuckles rapped.
The club got its knuckles rapped by the principal for hazing new members.
Why rap my knuckles? It wasn't my fault.
rate with someone
To be esteemed highly by another.
The professor really rates with both the graduate students and the undergraduates.
rattle one's saber
To threaten another government or country without subsequent acts of war.
It is considered an act of demagoguery on the part of politicians to rattle their sabers.
read one like a book
To understand someone completely; know what he will think or do at any time.
Понимать кого-либо полностью; знать что человек будет думать в конкретной ситуации.
John's girlfriend could read him like a book.
Emily, who read her husband like an open book, pretended that she didn’t suspect anything.
Эмили, которая прекрасно понимала своего мужа, сделала вид, что она ничего не подозревала.