Is anyone familiar with the phrase "through the goose"? Where did you hear it? What does it mean?
Welcome.
In my experience, it usually means very quickly, but sometimes has the connotation of easily. I believe that it is some shortened form of rather graphic simile of "like corn through a goose." I'm a city boy, but I have eaten corn. I'd rather not dwell on the simile to extract the full richness of its meaning.
Suffice it to say that it means very quickly.
My first memory of hearing it was from my father.
I am looking for more authoritative references.
Yes. All my life (although as part of a larger phrase, grass through a goose. A goose's digestive system is very fast and fluid. Everything a goose eats quickly goes through it.
A goose's mess is the back story to this thread.
Emmett