Sayings And Their Original Beginning

[Bobbisox1]

Have you heard of a saying and then thought “ I wonder where that originated from?”
Last night I was listening to the radio ( LBC) when the person phoning in said // This really got my goat ///
I’ve used it many times but never thinking where or what it meant,
Apparently a couple of hundred years ago it originated from when a horse was to race the next day, a goat was placed it the stable overnight, it supposedly had a ‘ calming effect’ on the horse.....
Strange but true :0)

[aelmpvw]

... and apparently it upset the horse if someone stole the goat

[jno]

nobody's too sure about that one

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/getting-ones-goat-can-you-help-solve-the-mystery/

[Bobbisox1]

And the horse said to the trainer ‘ it really gets my goat , hehe

[Bobbisox1]

I didn’t have clue jno till the broadcaster said about thd horses

[jno]

me neither, Bobbi, till you posted. I looked at a lot of answers but the ones who'd actually tried to trace the story couldn't find any evidence for where it came from. Of course they can only look at evidence in print; it would have been spoken long before it was written down.

[Bobbisox1]

And probably in a different context too jno?