feed the flames
comb someone's hair the wrong way
belabour
troll
enturbulate
tub-thump
get up someone's nose
pick a fight
fulminate
shit-stir
draw fire
cause a stir
give curry
rip into
test someone's patience
cue
explode
scorch
lam into
light the touch-paper
wrangle
get at
polemize
get under someone's skin
pick
put the frighteners on someone
importune
bearbait
curl someone's hair
enrage
provocate
chafe
fustigate
make a scene
get under one's goat
bite someone's head off
bare one's teeth
watch the feathers fly
rip
vent one's gall
get stuck into
fret
come in hot
vituperate
savage
break someone's balls
jump down someone's throat
rage
radge
pillory