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Idioms-with-Goose

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cook someone's goose (informal)

:if you cook someone's goose, you do something that spoils their plans and prevents them from succeeding -birisinin işine taş koymak, ayağını kaydırmak- He cooked my goose so that I couldn't submit my assignment.

 

kill the goose that lays the golden egg

:to destroy something that makes a lot of money -kapıyı kırıp odun etmek, bindiği dalı kesmek- She killed the goose that laid golden eggs by breaking up with her boyfriend.

 

What's sauce for the goose (is sauce for the gander)

:something that you say to suggest that if a particular type of behaviour is acceptable for one person, it should also be acceptable for another person (also:what's good for the goose is good for the gander) What'S sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander John! You should behave in the way your father does.

 

a wild-goose chase

:a situation where you waste time looking for something that you are not going to find, either because that thing does not exist or because you have been given wrong information about it -olmayacak duaya amin demek- your trying to establish a dialog with that girl is a wild goose chase.

 

wouldn't say boo to a goose

(British, informal, American, informal, Australian, informal) :if someone wouldn't say boo to a goose, they are shy and nervous -ağzına vur lokmasını al, karıncayı bile incitmez- He can't have killed that woman, he doesn't even say boo to a goose.

 

as silly as a goose

:very foolish, very silly -kuş beyinli- He is as silly as a goose.

 

gone goose

:someone or something that has departed or run away -kuş olup uçmak,uçup gitmek- The thieves gone goose and the police couldn't catch them.

 

goose bumps

:a prickly or bumpy feeling on one's skin because of cold/fear/excitement (like the skin of a goose or chicken) -tüyleri ürpermek- The movie I watched gave me goose bumps.

 

get goose bumps

:become excited and feel tingly , it is used when something excites you so much you get bumps like on goose skin -tüyleri diken diken olmak- (also:give someone goosebumps) The movie I watched gave me goose bumps.

 

get goose pimples

:see 'get goose bumps' (also: give someone goose pimples) The movie I watched gave me goose bumps.

 

the goose hung / hangs high

:there's a goose hanging in the larder, or that things are going well. The fact that there's a goose hanging in the larder (drying out to preserve it) means that you'll have enough to eat this fall, or Christmas, and therefore things are good This year in our factory the goose hangs high.

 

goose up

:to boast, to take steps to make something appear more attractive She tried to goose up the thing at the party but it was in vain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

REFERENCES :

1.Webster's New İNternatonal Dictionary

2.Longman Dictionary of English Idıoms

3.Cambridge Idıoms Dictionary

4.Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary

5.NTC's American Idıoms Dictionary

6.http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goose

7.http://www.tureng.com/search

 

 

 

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