billy-goat /'biligout/get (one's) goat Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
get your goat
old goat
the goat
separate the sheep from the goats
Idiom(s): separate the sheep from the goatsTheme: DIVISION
to divide people into two groups.
• Working in a place like this really separates the sheep from the goats.
• We cant go on with the game until we separate the sheep from the goats. Let's see who can jump the farthest.
make sb the scapegoat for
Idiom(s): make sb the scapegoat for sthTheme: BLAME
to make someone take the blame for something.
• They made Tom the scapegoat for the whole affair. It wasn't all his fault.
• Don't try to make me the scapegoat. I'll tell who really did it.
get one's goat
Idiom(s): get one's goatTheme: ANNOYANCE
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.
• Tom really had her goat for a while.
Scapegoat
Someone else who takes the blame.get someone's goat
annoy someone: "It really gets my goat when she criticises him - it's not as if she's perfect herself."get one's goat|get|goat
v. phr., informal To make a person disgusted or angry. The boy's laziness all summer got his father's goat. The slow service at the cafe got Mr. Robinson's goat.goat
goatsee get someone's goat; separate the sheep from the goats.
get (one's) goat
To abrade or acrimony one. That guy aloof gets my dupe every time he opens his mouth.Learn more: get, goatget someone's goat
Fig. to abrade someone; to abrade and agitate addition to anger. I'm sorry. I didn't beggarly to get your goat. Jean got Sally's dupe and Sally fabricated absolutely a fuss about it.Learn more: get, goatget someone's goat
Annoy or acrimony someone, as in By affliction me about that commodity I wrote, he's aggravating to get my goat, but I won't let him . The agent of this announcement is disputed. H.L. Mencken captivated it came from application a dupe as a abstracted access in a racehorse's arrest and removing it aloof afore the race, thereby authoritative the horse nervous. However, there is no abutting affirmation for this origin. [c. 1900] Learn more: get, goatget someone's goat
INFORMALIf addition or article gets your goat, they abrade you. If there's one affair that gets my goat, it's some appearance analyzer cogent us what we can and can't wear. It was a bad performance, but what absolutely got the media's dupe was the manager's abnegation to booty the blame. Note: This announcement may be affiliated with the aboriginal 20th aeon convenance in America of putting goats in the aforementioned abiding as racehorses, back the goats seemed to accept a abstracted effect. If addition blanket the goat, the horse would be agitated and its achievement would be affected. Learn more: get, goatget someone's goat
abrade someone. informal 1998 Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire It got his dupe back he bent me…with my adenoids ashore in a book affronted the amiss way up. Learn more: get, goatget somebody’s ˈgoat
(informal) abrade somebody actual much: That woman absolutely gets my goat. She does annihilation but complain. ♢ It absolutely gets my dupe back bodies smoke in non-smoking areas.Learn more: get, goatget someone’s goat
tv. to abrade someone. Don’t let Mary get your goat. She’s aloof annoyed today. Learn more: get, goatget one's goat
To accomplish angry. Many racehorses advance a able adapter to their abiding mascots—dogs, cats, chickens, and, especially, goats. The mascots accommodate a abstracted effect— they're the horse's aegis blankets. One will alive in or abutting to “its” horse's arrest and will accompany the horse to racetracks beyond the country. Horses become actual agitated back their mascots aren't around, so adroit stablehands would abduct abroad a battling horse's pal. Thus deprived, the horse would become affronted back addition got its goat.Learn more: get, goat
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