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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This seems to come from a variation of “that gets my goat”
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And it has the connotation of a goat butting you. Did you run this through Google? Did you look through the Eggcorn list here? What did you come up with?
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I did search through Eggcorns and could not find any reference to it. I also tried searching through Google with no success. I have heard this one several times but it because ‘goat’ returns so many responses I had trouble finding an expression using it in context.
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Okay… It was killing me so I tracked down a few results from google:
Mailing list archivesI’m not sure if you are trying to goat me into a conflict or >> >> if you are trying to resolve the work you have done and move forward. ...
mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/geronimo-dev/200608.mbox/%3C44DA03F3.8070901@hogstrom.org%3E – 13k – Cached – Similar pages
I HATE YOU ALLyou goat me and goat me and goat me , until you piss me off and then you say , what ? , i didn’t do anything , why is he starting on me , and if you are not …
www.gatago.com/soc/penpals/24638653.html – 20k – Cached – Similar pages
JOINING THE USCG, to be an AST – Topic Powered by eve communityYou will not goat me into starting bashing session here. As for calling me a liar, I respect the fact that you made it to MAster Chief in the Coast Guard. ...
forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/101196122/m/1000049080001 – 119k – Cached – Similar pages
Google grupper: alt.pro-wrestling.wwfMaybe I should dig up those messages you where leaving trying to goat me into arguing with you… Then I could show them to your ISP. Just remember …
groups.google.dk/.../browse_thread/thread/27b4ad39e8a7f8b3/ec1d25ef23f6a565?lnk=raot&hl=da – 510k – Cached – Similar pages
AlterMe…reset your dials: ……….Night at the Blue ParrotFerrari’s the only person at the table who can consistantly goat me into a pot that I don’t belong in with that frigging grin of his :) ...
dianeroy.blogspot.com/2004/09/night-at-blue-parrot.html – 38k – Cached – Similar pages
Stop complaining about Dom Rep [Archive] – DR1 ForumsGood strategy Jim, goat me to do something that I said I wouldn’t do and then say you won’t participate, in other words pick a fight and then walk away. ...
dr1.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-15356.html – 36k – Cached – Similar pages
I hope this helps.
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