gone goose

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

'It's a gone goose with him,' means that he is past recovery. The phrase is a vulgarism in New England. In New York it is said 'He's a gone gander,' i. e. a lost man; and in the West 'He's a gone coon.'


If a bear comes after you, Sam, you must be up and doin', or it's a gone goose with you.--Sam Slick in England, ch. 18.

It may be the doctor can do something for her, though she looks to me as though it was a gone goose with her'.--Major Downing, p. 87.

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