[Idiom] GET YOUR GOAT. - Mastering Emotional Control When Annoyed
Get your goat.
annoy
'Get your goat' means to irritate or annoy someone. This phrase possibly relates to the practice of placing goats with racehorses to calm the horses. If someone 'got your goat,' they would have removed this source of calm, thus agitating the horses. It vividly describes the act of being provoked into annoyance or anger.
Example Sentences
That comment really gets my goat.
That remark really annoys me.
Her constant lateness gets his goat every time.
Her habit of always being late irritates him every time.
Whining about small issues always gets my goat.
Complaining about trivial matters always irritates me.