To annoy someone, to make a person lose his or her temper. This term is definitely American in origin, but its precise prove- nance has been lost. H. L. Mencken was told that it came from the practice
of putting a goat inside a skittish racehorse’s stall in order to calm it down. Removing the goat shortly before the race would upset the horse and reduce its chances of winning, a ruse supposedly planned by a gambler who had bet on the horse’s losing. This explanation seems more far-fetched than
a possible connection of the term with the verb “to goad.” In any event, it came into use about 1900.
Three individuals have been apprehended in the case of the lithium pools,
according to the Prosecutor's Office.
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So far, three individuals have been apprehended in the investigation into
the industrial evaporation pools of Bolivian Lithium Deposits (YLB),
reported ...
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