Italian Idiom: Rompere le scatole (to annoy / get on someone’s nerves)
When my young son is tired or bored, he has the tendency to orbit around me, endlessly repeating the word mamma, in an effort to grab my attention. By the hundredth repetition, I occasionally can’t resist thinking to myself, “Ma smettila di rompermi le scatole!“ Rompere le scatole is, in short, an idiomatic way of …