gone goose
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It transformed me from sophisticate into gone goose.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018
Certainty was a gone goose, and the soul with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The roar of applause was punctuated by waves of laughter as blonde ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce voiced the thesis of her speech: that Harry Truman is a "gone goose."
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose Louie knew, if he knew anything, that he was a gone goose anyhow, and he wanted to punish the Captain.
From The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by Blaine, Captain John
Inside of a fortni't he was a gone goose, which wa'n't surprising—every other man being in the same fix—but 'TWAS surprising to see her helping the goneness along.
From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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