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Goat Animal Annoy Irritate Nerves Apologize He’d Miss

The idiom 'to get your goat' means to annoy or irritate someone, or to get on their nerves. The additional note clarifies that a goat is an animal, like a sheep, often associated with the devil.

La expresión 'to get your goat' significa molestar o irritar a alguien, o ponerle de los nervios. La nota adicional explica que una cabra es un animal similar a una oveja, a menudo asociado con el diablo.

Idiom to get your goat
Definition to annoy or irritate you, to get on your nerves
Examples - It really gets my goat when you do that!
- What really gets my goat is that he didn't even apologize.
- He really got my goat. He’d miss rehearsals, stress out Heidi to no degree, and complain loudly during almost every rehearsal.
- Whenever he got her goat, she'd start howling and yelling before taking a good swipe at him.
Note A goat is an animal like a sheep, with a beard and horns. The goat is the animal associated with the devil.

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