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What's sauce for the goose
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What's sauce for the goose (is sauce for the gander).  (British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also What's good for the goose (is good for the gander). (American & Australian old-fashioned)
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 If your husband can go out with his friends, then surely you can go out with yours. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
See cook goose, kill the goose that lays the golden egg
See also: goose, sauce
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It could just be the old cynic in me, but those words of yore about what's good for the goose keep ringing in my ears.
ON YOUR BIKE TOO, IEUAN by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Determine Your Needs and Understand Your Finances: What's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander.
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As I said, I'm not sure what the answer is in the mess, but what's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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