gone goose
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It transformed me from sophisticate into gone goose.
From New York Times
Certainty was a gone goose, and the soul with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose.
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
These piddling nicks out of the President's "bedrock" budget were unimportant in themselves�committees of both Houses were making bigger gashes in other bills�but they convinced Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau* that Mr. Roosevelt's recommended $460,000,000 national defense tax bill was a gone goose in this election year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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