gone gosling

gone gosling
noun

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gone goose or gone gosling noun (informal, esp US)
A hopeless case
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Main Entry:gone

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  • gone\ gosling — • gone goose • gone gosling noun slang A person for whom there is no hope. Herbert s grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year. The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window …   Словарь американских идиом

  • gone goose — also[gone gosling] {n.}, {slang} A person for whom there is no hope. * /Herbert s grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year./ * /The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • gone goose — also[gone gosling] {n.}, {slang} A person for whom there is no hope. * /Herbert s grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year./ * /The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • gone\ goose — • gone goose • gone gosling noun slang A person for whom there is no hope. Herbert s grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year. The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window …   Словарь американских идиом

  • gone goose — noun also gone gosling : a person who is doomed : one in a hopeless predicament they got me now, boy … I m a gone goose Nathaniel Burt when she goes after a man he s a gone goose W.H.Rudkin * * * gone goose or gone gosling noun (informal, esp …   Useful english dictionary

  • gosling — See: GONE GOOSE also GONE GOSLING …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • gosling — See: GONE GOOSE also GONE GOSLING …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • gosling — See: gone goose also gone gosling …   Словарь американских идиом

  • gone — adj. 1 (of time) past (not until gone nine). 2 a lost; hopeless. b dead. 3 colloq. pregnant for a specified time (already three months gone). 4 sl. completely enthralled or entranced, esp. by rhythmic music, drugs, etc. Phrases and idioms: be… …   Useful english dictionary

  • gosling — Synonyms and related words: Bantam, banty, barn door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, birdling, broiler, brooder, broody hen, calf, capon, catling, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chickling, chicky, cock, cockerel, colt, cub, dead duck,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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