Sheep : noun A goat is a ruminant mammal with arched horns, adept at jumping and climbing.
To make a goat turn: to annoy, to enrage
Take the goat: get angry.
Protect the goat and the cabbage: spare both camps by avoiding taking sides.
Very bad player (sports jargon).
Badly tuned car (motorsport).
Old goat: customer who does not leave a good tip.
Gobble your goat: get angry.
In police parlance, a goat is a woman used as bait to corner a criminal.
Not crazy the goat: said of a woman who is not stupid, who is clever.
Goat: woman of little virtue.
The expression "Make you become a goat": Enrage.
Do you know that the goat is a bovid? Of the goat subfamily, of course, but a bovid all the same, like the cow.
This animal was tamed very early (8000 BC) because it could be obtained from milk, meat, leather and horn tools. But what can be its connection with what inhabits a man in rage?
In the XNUMXth century to become a goat meant "to get angry", the expression succeeding to taking the goat used previously.
This expression comes simply from the behavior of the animal which is at the same time stubborn and known to be abrupt and to have sudden fits of violence as if it were angry, like our fellow who was made to become a goat.
Today, this expression is also used to say "to make mad".
The expression "Protect the goat and the cabbage": Maintain conflicting interests.
The verb to household is taken here in the sense "to treat with respect, not to displease, to take care of", as in to spare the susceptibility.
Awakened spirits or those who seek the little beast will say that in the rather dry places where goats are raised, there are no cabbage crops.
It's true, but what does it matter? When a goat is faced with a cabbage, what does it do? Well, she eats it!
If the two have been so opposed since the XNUMXth century (in the form of knowing how to pass the goat and the cabbage), it is simply to show the difficulty that there is and the skill that it takes for a third person to obtain that the cabbage remains intact and the goat has little protest or, more generally, to satisfy two parties with opposing interests.