cooking 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...

   Synonyms:

   do someone's goose, drive a coach and horses through, upset the applecart, ball up, blight, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate