get one's goat (1906)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>
> 1904 maybe relevant
> "Aha, my boy. That got your goat....Got hisn goat is right..."
> http://books.google.com/books?id=isAYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA54&dq=%22got+your+goat%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mNsuVLKHAojlsASlioK4Aw&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22got%20your%20goat%22&f=false

That one looks like a misdate. It's dialogue from George P. Seiler's
1916 play "At Hotel On-de-Blink."

--bgz

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