someone's goose is cooked

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Unclear. Unconvincing claims have been made of the term's origin in Aesop's Fables (The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs) and in Swedish history. Attested as cook someone's goose from 1845.

16 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: de rapen zijn gaar — all hope is gone
• Dutch: het vet is van de soep — all hope is gone
• Finnish: nyt otti ohraleipä — all hope is gone
• French: les carottes sont cuites — all hope is gone
• German: erledigt sein — all hope is gone
• German: geliefert sein — all hope is gone
• German: die Messe ist gelesen — all hope is gone
• Italian: conciare per le feste — all hope is gone
• Polish: nie ma nadziei — all hope is gone
• Russian: пиши пропало /write that it's lost/ (piši propalo) — all hope is gone
• Russian: де́ло труба́ /business is a pipe/ (délo trubá) — all hope is gone
• Russian: де́ло таба́к /business is tobacco/ (délo tabák) — all hope is gone
• Russian: де́ло швах (délo švax) — all hope is gone
• Russian: попал, как кур во щи /caught like a rooster into shchi/ (popal, kak kur vo šči) — all hope is gone
• Russian: пе́сенка спета /(his) song is sung/ (pésenka speta) — all hope is gone
• Swedish: nu är det kokta fläsket stekt — all hope is gone