get goat

get someone's goat

Fig. to irritate someone; to annoy and arouse someone to anger. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get your goat. Jean got Sally's goat and Sally made quite a fuss about it.

get your goat

to make you very annoyed or angry The message on her answering machine is really annoying, and I think she leaves it on there just to get my goat.

get your goat

(British, American & Australian informal) also get on your goat (Australian informal)

to annoy you It really gets my goat when people push past without saying 'Excuse me'. The kid never stops whingeing - he really gets on my goat.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rylan	RIE-lən	English (Modern)
Matilda	mə-TIL-də (English), MAH-teel-dah (Finnish)	English, Swedish, Finnish
Darma	DAHR-mah	Indonesian
Zaramama	-	Incan Mythology
Sigrid	SEEG-reed (Finnish)	Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Eugenia	e-oo-KHE-nyah (Spanish), e-uw-GEN-yah (Polish), yoo-JEE-nee-ə (English), yoo-JEEN-yə (English)	Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, English, Ancient Greek (Latinized)