Possible Clues:

• Cause annoyance
• Annoy no end
• Status starts to irritate
• Before deer returned, managed to get someone's goat
• Chafe right joint
• Annoy heads of research and nearly kindle limitless enmity
• Managed, raising deer, to cause persistent annoyance
• Cause persistent annoyance in centre of strip joint
• Cause ill-feeling
• Managed to run over animal, and cause resentment