Saturday, 17 September 2016

"What's Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander."

Saturday Proverb:

Proverb: "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."




Meaning: 
What is good for a man is equally good for a woman; or, what a man can have or do, so can a woman have or do. This comes from an earlier
proverb, “What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.”

History / Interesting Fact:

This proverb was cited and described as a woman's proverb in John Ray's English Proverbs (1678) and suggests that if something is good or okay for the man in a relationship or marriage – it is also good for the woman (goose being female and gander being male).

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