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There are two suggested sources. One based on the fact that racehorses had a goat for company to keep them quiet. If you stole the goat you upset the horse and his owner. The other based on an old French expression "prendre le chevre" meaning to take ones goat and thus deprive one of its milk, an inconvenience before the days of supermarkets.

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