What
really gets my goat?
Well
I’ll tell you.
People
who walk along head down either reading, yes reading…how on earth anyone can
concentrate on that while walking is beyond me…or txting on their phones. The
ignorant folks expect everyone else to walk around them. I’ve stopped doing
that. It is interesting to see the confused look on their faces when they find
a person in their way.
And how about thus one...
Yesterday
a chap got onto the already crowded tub with a large pack on his back. Just
about knocked the book I was reading out of my hand.
‘take
you pack off and put it between your feet’ I said to him. ‘Big packs are a nuisance
on a crowded train’
‘What?’
he answered, pulling one of his headphones off.
I repeated
myself, and he just gave me what he must have thought was a dirty look and
moved further into the carriage and turned sideways so that his bulky pack was
just inches from the face of the woman sitting there.
Talk
about pig ignorant.
Now
there’s a phrase for you, I owner where it came from Hmmm didn’t have much luck
as far as the origin goes, but the meaning was certainly accurate.
Now
how about the phrase I started with That’s right, getting on someones goat
The dictionary
definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that
got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might
expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is
recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing,
1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger.
The phrase
originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a
fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily
Journal, May 1909:
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