gosling

gone chicken

obsolete slang Someone who is in a position of certain death, failure, or ruin. We'll have to leave him here—he's a gone chicken with a wound like that. It was a horrific crash, and the woman and her child would have been gone chicks if not for some off-duty EMTs who happened to be passing by. If you start drowning in open water, you're a gone chicken, man.

See also: chicken, gone

gone goose

obsolete slang Any person or thing that is in a position of certain death, failure, or ruin. Primarily heard in US. He said his business would be a gone goose if the bank doesn't approve his loan. We'll have to leave him here—he's a gone goose with a wound like that. If you start drowning in open water, you're a gone goose, man.

See also: gone, goose

gone gosling

obsolete slang Any person or thing that is in a position of certain death, failure, or ruin. Primarily heard in US. He said his business would be a gone gosling if the bank doesn't approve his loan. We'll have to leave him here—he's a gone gosling with a wound like that. If you start drowning in open water, you're a gone gosling, man.

See also: gone, gosling

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(a) gone goose

someone or something that has departed or run away. Surely, the burglar is a gone goose by now. The child was a gone goose, and we did not know where to look for him.

See also: gone, goose

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

a goner

Something or someone that is dead, doomed, ruined, or past recovery, as in If this new drug doesn't work, he's a goner; or Without a working transmission, my car's a goner. Synonyms of this idiom, such as a gone goose or chicken or gosling , are no longer heard as much. [Slang; mid-1800s]

See also: goner

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

gone goose

n. someone or something finished or done for. (A play on dead duck.) I’m afraid that your old car is a gone goose.

See also: gone, goose

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