| 单词 | what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhat's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander b. what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and variants: what is appropriate in one case or situation should also be appropriate in another similar case or situation; like cases should be treated in a like manner. Also in elaborated variants showing substitution of goose and gander, with the same meaning.Sometimes with allusion to the gender-specific meanings of goose and gander. Cf. goose n. 1b, gander n. 1a. ΚΠ 1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xiii. 118 I could not justly complaine, seeing what was sauce for a Goose was sauce for a Gander. 1700 J. Collier Second Def. Short View Eng. Stage 37 That that's Sawce for a Goose is Sawce for a Gander. 1849 Common School Jrnl. (Boston) 1 Aug. 219 No one will deny that it would have been better for her not to have struck the teacher... ‘Sauce for the gosling sauce for the goose’ was evidently her maxim. 1900 A. Upward Ebenezer Lobb 295 It seemed to me as though what was sauce for the insured ought to have been sauce for the annuitant. 2021 Belfast Tel. (National ed.) (Nexis) 19 July 33 Gender equality would ensure that what was sauce for the gander was sauce for the goose. < as lemmas |
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