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get someone's nanny

get someone's nanny is the alternative form of get someone's goat.

Meaning of get someone's goat

Verb

get someone's goat (third-person singular simple present gets someone's goat, present participle getting someone's goat, simple past got someone's goat, past participle (UK) got someone's goat or (US) gotten someone's goat)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To annoy or infuriate someone.
    • It really gets my goat when inconsiderate people drop litter in public.

Forms of get someone's nanny

third-person singular presentgets someone's nanny
present participlegetting someone's nanny
pastgot someone's nanny
past participle UKgot someone's nanny
past participle USgotten someone's nanny

Questions about get someone's nanny

What is get someone's nanny the alternative form of?
Get someone's nanny is the alternative form of get someone's goat.

Words near get someone's nanny in the dictionary

  1. get someone's dander up
  2. get someone's drift
  3. get someone's goat
  4. get someone's Irish up
  5. get someone's motor running
  6. get someone's nanny
  7. get someone's nanny-goat
  8. get someone's neurons firing
  9. get someone's number
  10. get someone's shirt out
  11. get something over with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get someone's nanny (page history and authors); get someone's goat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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