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Goose is cooked

DEFINITION

In trouble. Imagine being a goose and being caught, slaughtered and cooked, not a good situation!  (Compare to In dutch, In the Doghouse or In the soup.)

“Once the police saw him enter that house, his goose was cooked.”

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