get someone's goat

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Meanings:

1.
USUKAustraliageneralinformalidiomatic
- To annoy, irritate, or vex someone, often by provoking them or undermining their patience.
2.
historicalgeneralarchaicliteral
- To deprive someone of a goat (historically literal), a sense from which the figurative meaning is believed to derive.

Examples:

EN: And I know especially that last one is going to get someone's goat.
HI: मुझे मालूम है अब वो किसी और के ख्वाब सजा चूकी होगी
EN: Trying to get someone's goat
HI: किसी की उंगली पकड़कर
EN: Oh yeah, I was also trying to get someone's goat.
HI: हां मैंने भी किसी से इश्क़ बेपनाह किया है।
EN: You wanted to get someone's goat.
TE: మీరు ఎవరినైనా కండువా తీసుకురావాలని భావించారు.

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