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Silly goose

Posted by ESC on October 13, 2002

In Reply to: Silly goose posted by Tim Harrington on October 12, 2002

: : wherefore "silly goose"

GOOSE or GEESE - "A foolish or ignorant person is called a goose because of the alleged stupidity of this bird." Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable revised by Adrian Room (HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1999, Sixteenth Edition).

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