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what's good for the goose is good for the gander
If something is good, acceptable, or beneficial for one person, it is or should be equally so for another person or persons as well. Well I guess if you are entitled to stay out until all hours, then I'll do the same. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?
take a gander (at someone or something)
to look at someone or something. Wow, take a gander at that new car! I wanted to take a gander at the new computer before they started using it.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Prov. What is good for one person is good for another.; What is good for the man in a couple is good for the woman. Jane: You're overweight; you should get more exercise. Alan: But I don't really have time to exercise. Jane: When I was overweight, you told me to exercise; what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's
What applies to one applies to both, especially to both male and female. For example, After her husband went off with his fishing buddies for a week, she decided to take a vacation without him-what's sauce for the goose, you know . This proverbial expression, often shortened as in the example, was cited and described as "a woman's proverb" in John Ray's English Proverbs (1678).
take a gander at
Look at, glance at, as in
Will you take a gander at that woman's red hair! This slangy idiom, dating from the early 1900s, presumably came from the verb
gander, meaning "stretch one's neck to see," possibly alluding to the long neck of the male goose. For a synonym, see
take a look at.
gander
n. a look. (see also
rubberneck.)
Let me take a gander at it and see if it’s done right. take a gander (at someone/something)
tv. to look at someone or something. (see also
gander.)
Wow, take a gander at this chick! take a gander
verb