Q: What does the phrase "'Get your goat"mean?
(Answer: Makes you angry, annoyed, pissed off.)
Although common, "gets your goat" has mysterious origins.
The two most common theories are:
1. Goats were kept with racehorses to keep them calm and running well. Whenever a competitor made off with the racehorse owner's calming strategy, he "got his goat".
2. There was an old belief that keeping a goat in the barn with the cows kept them calm and producing more milk. Thus if an enemy (a jilted lover?) "got one's goat", the farmer's cows would produce less milk.
But those are just old theories based on old superstitions
And it really gets my goat that no one has come up with a modern theory of the origin of that phrase!
So I've decided to give big upvotes to the most interesting modern new theories of how the phrase "to get one's goat" came into use. Put your creativity to work and put your shiny new theory in a comment below.
BE CREATIVE!
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ouzo and out,
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(It's unfolding NOW)
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