what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

谚语
中文释义

英文释义

谚语
  1. If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another (often of the opposite gender).
    — […] sawce which is good for the Goose, I hope will be good for the Gander […]
  2. One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.

词汇关系

近义词
turnabout is fair play
反义词
quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
衍生词
what's good for the goose is good for the gander sauce for the goose

词源

1670s, figuratively using goose/gander for women and men, and literally meaning that the same sauce applies equally well to cooked goose, regardless of sex. Early forms include “as deep drinketh the goose as the gander” (1562) and similar “As well for the coowe calfe as for the bull” (1549). The expression appears in Dickens when a spy attempting to evade culpability insists, “For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.”
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