My mother baffled her grandchildren with this phrase over the recent holidays. Does anyone know its origin?
anniet said:
My mother baffled her grandchildren with this phrase over the recent holidays. Does anyone know its origin?
I do not...was searching similar "..God gave geese" (What I've always heard...same dif right?;-)
To do with flying in a Vee?...rotating lead as they tire? (to do it naturally/instinctively)?
...and to add, ALWAYS used in the negative..NOT a compliment.
Preceded with "Doesn't have the..."
I've heard or read variations of it before and find a few odd ones in Google Books. I think alliteration and the generally idiocy of geese is at the bottom of it, not any kind of fons et origo.
sense God gave a green goose
sense God gave a dead goose
sense God gave a wild goose