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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