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Idiom: Get your goat
If you get someone’s goat, it does not mean that you steal or borrow their goat.
Why would you want to borrow someone’s goat anyway?
What would you do with a stolen goat?
Make cheese, maybe?
I mean, what can you do with a goat?
I had a goat when I was young.
They are kinda smelly, and they rarely do what you want them to do.
But I am digressing again.
To get back to the idiom of the day, if you get someone’s goat, you do or say something to make them angry or irritated.
If you have a child, you know that sometimes children love to do things just to get you angry.
Some kids love to do things to annoy their parents.
It’s fun, and they want to get under their parents’ skin.
Perhaps your son drinks milk out of the carton with the fridge door open, or your daughter ‘borrows’ your best lipstick.
Maybe your son borrowed the family car and did not reverse it into the parking space after you specifically told him not to park it head-on.
Yeah, sometimes children just love to get your goat.
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