He got bigwig’s goat by troubling him over a trifle!

This person who had been employed in a foreign country for several years had got an appointment as the head of a certain Statutory body thanks to his kinship to a very high political authority. 

He had set his heart upon starting a garment park in the Eravur area and had approached the high political authority with a letter seeking his permission to fell two Palmyra trees on the proposed garment park site.

The high authority had lost his temper when he read the letter handed to him and had shown him the door asking him to see the State purohita concerned.