his goose is cooked
he will fail
TRANSLATION
his goose his cooked = er ist erledigt cook someone's goose = jmdn. erledigen --- GOOGLE INDEX cook someone's goose: approximately 700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
The movie wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot
We fell asleep, our GOOSE IS COOKED, our reputation is shot
Wake up little Susie
- from the song Wake Up Little Suzy by the Everly Brothers
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If the company's sales stall and interest rates rise dramatically, its GOOSE IS COOKED.
(Investopedia)
The movie wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot
We fell asleep, our GOOSE IS COOKED, our reputation is shot
Wake up little Susie
- from the song Wake Up Little Suzy by the Everly Brothers
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If the company's sales stall and interest rates rise dramatically, its GOOSE IS COOKED.
(Investopedia)
Did you
know?
cook someone's goose
idiom
- to do something that spoils someone's plans and prevents them from succeeding
(The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The American Heritage Dictionary says the origin of this phrase has been lost, but there are numerous fanciful theories. One of them concerns a town under siege that displayed a goose to show it had enough food, the attackers eventually won and then set the goose on fire. The first recorded use of this colloquial phrase was in 1851.
Other "goose" idioms include:
- send someone on a wild-goose chase = to send someone on a pointless or futile search
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s) = an old proverb that means to destroy something that is profitable to you
- what's good for the goose is good for the gander = what's good for one person is good enough for another
- silly as a goose = to act very foolish
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SYNONYMS
he's done for, he's finished, he's out of here, count him out, he's dead meat
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"If he shows up late for work one more time, his goose is cooked!"
idiom
- to do something that spoils someone's plans and prevents them from succeeding
(The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The American Heritage Dictionary says the origin of this phrase has been lost, but there are numerous fanciful theories. One of them concerns a town under siege that displayed a goose to show it had enough food, the attackers eventually won and then set the goose on fire. The first recorded use of this colloquial phrase was in 1851.
Other "goose" idioms include:
- send someone on a wild-goose chase = to send someone on a pointless or futile search
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s) = an old proverb that means to destroy something that is profitable to you
- what's good for the goose is good for the gander = what's good for one person is good enough for another
- silly as a goose = to act very foolish
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SYNONYMS
he's done for, he's finished, he's out of here, count him out, he's dead meat
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"If he shows up late for work one more time, his goose is cooked!"
