Usually means: Provoke or disturb someone deliberately.
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  1. rattle someone's cage: Merriam-Webster
  2. rattle someone's cage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rattle someone's cage, rattle someone's cage: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rattle someone's cage: Wiktionary

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  1. rattle someone's cage: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (rattle someone's cage)

verb:  (informal) To demand attention from someone; to nag, nudge, or remind someone.
verb:  (informal) To anger or to annoy someone.


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