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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Yesterday I posted a fairly eggcornish variant on “gets my goat”: “gets my goad.” I also found a handful of instances of a variant that’s a bit harder to justify as an eggcorn. “Goads my goat” seems almost as mysterious as the phrase it replaces; the reshaping still doesn’t explain why a goat is involved. This is pretty rare, so here are most of the egs. I could find:
That was horrible -Jed thought he knew how to goad my goat, but it was really his ugly puss and pathetic voice that pissed me off.
http://pinchmealfredo.blogspot.com/2006 … chive.html
In essence, by yanking my chain, goading my goat, leading me through the woods on a snipe hunt, the practical jokers have gone too far and now they are the butt of their own joke.
http://www.aikidojournal.com/forums/vie … edf9848bef
What really goads my goat is the blatant bashing that is flowing from the proverbial pen upon Mr Sorkin by this “reviewer”.
http://suburbarazzi.lohudblogs.com/2007 … s-in/feed/
Ah well, maybe I’m not in a position to comment on this anymore although I still have voting rights for a few more years. Still it goads my goat, or something like that.
http://swedishlessons.blogspot.com/2004 … chive.html
You “bootstrap†people really goad my goat. Sometimes there aren’t any bootstraps. Sometimes there aren’t any boots. Try a little compassion in your cold-hearted lives.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jun/1 … te_rising/
This writer sees goat-goading in a positive light:
If you don’t know already or don’t care to know, I am an olive fiend. I used to eat a can of them after class during high school every other day. Green, black, greek, it doesn’t matter, they all goad my goat.
http://crabby.antland.org/2004/08/ok.php
A poster on the American Dialect Society list went back through newspaper archives from the first few years of the 20th century, and found examples of “gets my goat” and similar phrases. It looks like the phrase had a whole range of applications, both negative and positive, in its early years; our current definition of the phrase may be the product of slow selection. The post can be found here: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bi … =1&P=22199
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