cook someone's goose

cook someone's goose
cook someone's goose (informal)
1. To spoil someone's plans
2. To make someone's downfall inevitable
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Main Entry:cook

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cook someone’s goose informal phrase
to cause a lot of problems for someone, or to spoil their plans
Thesaurus: to cause problems for someone or somethingsynonym
Main entry: cook

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I
informal cause someone's downfall

I've got enough on you to cook your goose

II
see cook

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cook someone's goose
informal : to make it certain that someone will fail, lose, etc.

They were already trailing, and that last goal really cooked their goose.

Their goose was cooked after that last goal.

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Main Entry:cook
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cook someone's goose — see cook, 2
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Main Entry:goose

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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