- act the goat
- informal
to behave in a silly way, sometimes in order to make people laugh.
Insecure and lonely, he resorted to acting the goat to get people's attention.
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act the goat — act/play/the goat british informal phrase to deliberately behave in a stupid way Thesaurus: to behave in a silly waysynonym Main entry: goat … Useful english dictionary
play the goat — act/play/the goat british informal phrase to deliberately behave in a stupid way Thesaurus: to behave in a silly waysynonym Main entry: goat … Useful english dictionary
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