英语词汇cook his her goose的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cook his (her) goose. The Mad King of Sweden, Eric XIV, was supposedly so enraged because residents of a medieval town he had attacked hung out a goose, a symbol of stupidity, to “slyghte his forces” that he told the residents “[I will] cook your goose” and proceeded to burn the town to the ground. This story is generally disregarded, because Mad King Eric sup- posedly avenged his insult in about 1560 and the expression cook his goose—“to put an end to, ruin”—isn’t recorded until 1851. Attempts have been made to relate the phrase to the old Greek fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. The peasant couple to whom that goose belonged, you’ll remember, killed it (and perhaps cooked it later) because they were eager to get at the golden eggs within its body, which turned out to be unde- veloped in any case. The first recorded use of the phrase cook his goose is in a London street ballad condemning “Papal Ag- gression” when Pope Pius IX tried to strengthen the power of the Catholic church in England with his appointment of Ni- cholas Wiseman as English cardinal:

词汇	cook his her goose
词源	cook his (her) goose. The Mad King of Sweden, Eric XIV, was supposedly so enraged because residents of a medieval town he had attacked hung out a goose, a symbol of stupidity, to “slyghte his forces” that he told the residents “[I will] cook your goose” and proceeded to burn the town to the ground. This story is generally disregarded, because Mad King Eric sup- posedly avenged his insult in about 1560 and the expression cook his goose—“to put an end to, ruin”—isn’t recorded until 1851. Attempts have been made to relate the phrase to the old Greek fable of the goose that laid the golden eggs. The peasant couple to whom that goose belonged, you’ll remember, killed it (and perhaps cooked it later) because they were eager to get at the golden eggs within its body, which turned out to be unde- veloped in any case. The first recorded use of the phrase cook his goose is in a London street ballad condemning “Papal Ag- gression” when Pope Pius IX tried to strengthen the power of the Catholic church in England with his appointment of Ni- cholas Wiseman as English cardinal: If they come here we’ll cook their goose, The Pope and Cardinal Wiseman.
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