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cooks someone's goose

cooks someone's goose is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

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What is cooks someone's goose the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cooks someone's goose is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cook someone's goose.

Words near cooks someone's goose in the dictionary

  1. Cooks Gap
  2. Cooks Hill
  3. Cooks Myalls
  4. cooks off
  5. cooks out
  6. cooks someone's goose
  7. Cooks syndrome
  8. cooks the books
  9. cooks through
  10. cooks up
  11. cooks up a storm

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