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Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
GET SOMEONE'S GOAT to get someone's goat. To anger, annoy, irritate, or
exasperate someone. SOED: 1912. Source: GOAT (?). WNNCD: O.E. The origin
of this metaphor is uncertain, but it may have something to do with the "
kidnapping" ...
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... get someone's goat; get someone's nanny-goat; get someone's shirt out; get up
someone's nose; give someone the pip; nark; piss someone off; rip; tee someone
off; tick someone off Annoying balls-aching Something annoying aggro; chizz; ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
wrong way; informal aggravate, get to, bug, miff, peeve, rile, nettle, get someone's
goat, tick off. WORD LINKS ' neural relating to nerves in the body neuralgia pain
along a nerve in the body neurosurgery surgery performed on the nervous ...
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Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
—News Herald (Panama City, Fla., 1/13/2012) Get someone's goat means make
them angry. The origin of this expression is unknown. The earliest example I
could find is from October, 1905, in Public Opinion, an American weekly
magazine: ...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
The origin of dander, used since the early 1800s, is disputed; a likely theory is
that it comes from the Dutch donder, for “thunder” Also see GET sOMEONE's
GOAT; RAISE oNE's HACKLES. get someone's goat Annoy or anger someone,
as in ...
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Hide Your
Goat: Strategies to Stay Positive When Negativity ...
Think about it: a passenger's appearance on a plane was able to get someone's
goat without him even opening his mouth. Someone, somewhere, from the past
of the person who stereotyped initiated a thought process that continued to roam
...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
goat boater | go downtown 294 < get someone's goat to succeed in making
someone lose their temperUS, 1904 goat boater noun a surfer who uses a
surfboard/canoe hybrid craft. Mainly derogatory UK: WALES, 2002 goat fuck
noun a ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... get up someone's nose, hack off, get someone's goat, wind up; Brit. informal
nark, get on someone's wick, give someone the hump, get across; N. Amer.
informal tick off, rankle, ride, gravel; vulgar slang piss off; rare exacerbate, hump,
rasp.
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
To get someone's goat (MP 257) 1911 "you've got my goat, you've got my proud
goat." (III, 1913) 1911 "Nobody can get his goat." (III, 1990) 1916 As we say to-
day, she had my goat. (III, 2383) The Complete Short Stories of Jack London, 3
vols ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(Culotta) Cf. crab, n., 10.—7. In the phrase get (someone's) goat, to annoy him:
adopted, ex US, ca. 1916; s. >, by late 19305, coll. (OED Sup) Perhaps ex Fr.
prendre la chevre, to take the milch-goat, often the poor man's sole source of milk
.—8.
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The goat herd: A story of chevre, Shavuot and backyard goats …
To throw a race, you would sneak into the stall at night and get someone's goat. A cliché was born.) Rob Eshman's goats: Ollie, left, and Goldie ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., mag 12»
Want a goat? Check out auction Monday morning at Huntsville …
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- If you've ever wanted to get someone's goat, now is your chance. Huntsville Animal Services is holding an auction ... «al.com, giu 11»
