英语词汇gone goose的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gone goose. No connection has been made between this American expression and the much older phrase cook his goose. Apparently, the Americanism dates only from about 1830, and there is no story about a goose in a helpless, hopeless state to explain it. Probably a gone goose, a gone beaver, a gone chick, and similar expressions all derive from the earlier a gone coon, which, according to one of several legends, goes back to the Revolutionary War. It seems that an American had dis- guised himself in raccoon skins and climbed a tree to spy on the British. But an enemy soldier discovered him that night while coon hunting and took aim, ready to shoot the biggest coon he had ever seen, when the spy cried out, “Don’t shoot— I’ll come down! I know I’m a gone coon!” According to the leg- end, the British soldier was so terrified to hear an “animal” talk that he dropped his gun and ran. The tale need not be true for it to have popularized the expression a gone coon, and other animals could have been substituted for the coon by storytell- ers in different areas of the country.

词汇	gone goose
词源	gone goose. No connection has been made between this American expression and the much older phrase cook his goose. Apparently, the Americanism dates only from about 1830, and there is no story about a goose in a helpless, hopeless state to explain it. Probably a gone goose, a gone beaver, a gone chick, and similar expressions all derive from the earlier a gone coon, which, according to one of several legends, goes back to the Revolutionary War. It seems that an American had dis- guised himself in raccoon skins and climbed a tree to spy on the British. But an enemy soldier discovered him that night while coon hunting and took aim, ready to shoot the biggest coon he had ever seen, when the spy cried out, “Don’t shoot— I’ll come down! I know I’m a gone coon!” According to the leg- end, the British soldier was so terrified to hear an “animal” talk that he dropped his gun and ran. The tale need not be true for it to have popularized the expression a gone coon, and other animals could have been substituted for the coon by storytell- ers in different areas of the country.
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