| 单词 | to get a person's goat up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get a person's goat up a. Originally U.S. To anger, annoy, or irritate; to make (a person) lose his or her temper. Also in to get a person's goat up. Cf. to get a person's nanny at nanny n.2 2, to get a person's nanny-goat at nanny-goat n. 1b.In quot. 1900 with reference to a prank involving an actual goat, but perhaps showing a punning allusion indicating earlier currency of this phrase. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)] gremec893 grillc897 teenOE mispay?c1225 agrillec1275 oftenec1275 tarya1300 tarc1300 atenec1320 enchafec1374 to-tarc1384 stingc1386 chafe?a1400 pokec1400 irec1420 ertc1440 rehete1447 nettlec1450 bog1546 tickle1548 touch1581 urge1593 aggravate1598 irritate1598 dishumour1600 to wind up1602 to pick at ——1603 outhumour1607 vex1625 bloody1633 efferate1653 rankle1659 spleen1689 splenetize1700 rile1724 roil1742 to put out1796 to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823 roughen1837 acerbate1845 to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846 nag1849 to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859 frump1862 rattle1865 to set up any one's bristles1873 urticate1873 needle1874 draw1876 to rough up1877 to stick pins into1879 to get on ——1880 to make (someone) tiredc1883 razoo1890 to get under a person's skin1896 to get a person's goat1905 to be on at1907 to get a person's nanny1909 cag1919 to get a person's nanny-goat1928 cagmag1932 peeve1934 tick-off1934 to get on a person's tits1945 to piss off1946 bug1947 to get up a person's nose1951 tee1955 bum1970 tick1975 1900 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 25 Feb. 17/5 (heading) Got His Goat. Frank Clayton Has the Tables Turned on Him!!] 1905 Public Opinion 21 Oct. 517/2 Well, that gets my goat... The nerve of her! 1906 N.Y. Times 24 May 18/5 ‘Well, you got my goat up that time, Judge,’ said Mr. Olcott. ‘The truth is liable to grate on some ears,’ retorted the District Attorney. 1922 Weekly Westm. Gaz. 27 May 8/1 What gets my goat is the assumption that the misty subject is necessarily more artistic than the sharp and regular one. 1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick i. 22 What got my goat was that when I finally did get knocked off..it was due to an accident outside the theatre. 1998 M. Booth Industry of Souls ii. 27 It's just my joke. A story we tell to get his goat up. His real tale is much funnier. 2003 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 21 Feb. in Baghdad Blog 102 Anyway, what really got my goat this time was finding out that the Human Shields get food coupons. < as lemmas |
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