get someone's goat
21goat — [gəut US gout] n [: Old English; Origin: gat] 1.) an animal that has horns on top of its head and long hair under its chin, and can climb steep hills and rocks. Goats live wild in the mountains or are kept as farm animals. 2.) get sb s goat… …
22goat — /goʊt/ (say goht) noun 1. a common domesticated ruminant, Capra hircus, bred into many varieties for milk and meat. 2. any bovid animal of the tribe Caprini, comprising various agile hollow horned ruminants closely related to the sheep, found… …
23goat — noun (C) 1 an animal a little like a sheep that can climb steep hills and rocks 2 get sb s goat spoken to make someone extremely annoyed: I ll tell you another thing that really got my goat. 3 act/play the goat BrE informal to behave in a silly… …
24make someone's hackles rise — ANNOY, irritate, exasperate, anger, incense, infuriate, irk, nettle, vex, put out, provoke, gall, antagonize, get on someone s nerves, ruffle someone s feathers, rankle with; Brit. rub up the wrong way; informal aggravate, peeve, needle, rile,… …
25rub someone the wrong way — Regina s roommates rub her boyfriend the wrong way Syn: irritate, annoy, irk, vex, provoke, displease, exasperate, infuriate, get on someone s nerves, put out, pique, upset, nettle, ruffle someone s feathers, make someone s hackles rise, try… …
26make someone's hackles rise — Julie s compulsive criticizing made her sister s hackles rise Syn: annoy, irritate, exasperate, anger, incense, infuriate, irk, nettle, vex, put out, provoke, gall, antagonize, get on someone s nerves, ruffle someone s feathers, rankle with; rub… …
27get at — 1) PHRASAL VERB To get at something means to succeed in reaching it. [V P n] A goat was standing up against a tree on its hind legs, trying to get at the leaves. 2) PHRASAL VERB If you get at the truth about something, you succeed in discovering… …
28get goat — annoy someone He has been getting my goat recently and I am tired of him …
29Gävle goat — The Gävle Goat (known in Swedish as the Julbocken i Gävle or Gävlebocken) is a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule Goat figure made of straw that is located at Slottstorget in central Gävle. It is erected each year by a local association… …
30One Little Goat Theatre Company — Toronto s enterprising One Little Goat Theatre Company [1] is North America’s only theatre company devoted to modern and contemporary “poetic theatre.”[2][3] Founded by poet, playwright and director Adam Seelig in New York in 2002, and based in… …
