• ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s partly a joke (your favourite peeve, for example) and probably a reference to the other, now archaic, meaning of pet:

    fit of peevishness, offense or ill-humor at feeling slighted

    I think you can accept idioms as they are or you’ll be endlessly feeling like one saying or another has got your goat