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Mind your language

What’s good for the goose is bad for the proverb

A sauce check on a traditional saying

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

‘Goosey, goosey gander,’ my husband shouted at the television, like someone from Gogglebox. It’s not so much that he thinks the television real as that he thinks himself an unreal part of the television.

The cause of his outburst was something that had caught my attention, too. Someone had said: ‘What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.’

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