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GET (SOMEONE'S) GOAT

to irritate or annoy someone
GET (SOMEONE'S) GOAT
1. I can’t believe the boss is giving Judith the day before Christmas off, when he refused to let me take the day off. That really gets my goat!
2. The one thing that really gets my husband’s goat is when he finds a parking place and someone else comes along and steals it.

Compare to: get (one’s) dander up; bug.


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