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cooked someone's goose

cooked someone's goose is the simple past and past participle of cook someone's goose.

Meaning of cook someone's goose

Verb

cook someone's goose (third-person singular simple present cooks someone's goose, present participle cooking someone's goose, simple past and past participle cooked someone's goose)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.
    • I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of myself.1867 September 28, Joseph Wasson, “Colonel [George] Crook’s Campaign”, in Peter Cozzens, editor, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890: The Wars for the Pacific Northwest, volume 2...

Questions about cooked someone's goose

What is cooked someone's goose the simple past and past participle of?
Cooked someone's goose is the simple past and past participle of cook someone's goose.

Words near cooked someone's goose in the dictionary

  1. cooked
  2. cooked back
  3. cooked mode
  4. cooked off
  5. cooked out
  6. cooked someone's goose
  7. cooked the books
  8. cooked through
  9. cooked up
  10. cooked up a storm
  11. cookedness

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