🪿 Goose
"Cook someone's goose"
Meaning
To ruin someone's plans or chances.
About the goose
Geese honk loudly and appear in stories about unexpected windfalls, which is why their idioms cover foolish behavior and sudden luck.
Example sentence
The sudden rain cooked our goose at the picnic.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To ruin someone's plans or chances.
More goose idioms
GooseIdiom
"Wild goose chase"
A long and useless search for something that is hard or impossible to find.
GooseIdiom
"Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs"
To destroy something valuable by being greedy.
GooseIdiom
"Your goose is cooked"
You are in serious trouble or your plan has failed.
GooseIdiom
"Wild goose chase"
A long and useless search for something that is hard or impossible to find.
GooseIdiom
"Wild goose chase"
A long and useless search.