To annoy someone or make him get cross badly, to arouse anger in someone
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- It is a 20th century American expression. It was customary in those days to put or set a goat in the stand of a race horse that was found nervous and panicky just to ease and relax him. But if people did not want their horse to win, they slinked the goat out of the stand to make the horse lose its temper and get upset.
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The children never stopped whingeing, they really got on my goat, and I will teach them a lesson.
Submitted on February 25, 2019
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