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What's SAUCE for the goose is sauce for the gander
What is suitable for a woman is suitable for a man. The proverb is also occasionally used in non-sexist contexts.
1670
English Proverbs
98
That that's good sawce for a goose, is good for a gander … This is a woman's Proverb.
1692
Fables of Aesop
cccii.
Sauce for a Goose is Sauce for a Gander.
1894
Perly-cross
III. v.
A proverb of large equity .. declares .. that ‘sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’. This maxim is pleasant enough to the goose.
1979
Daily Telegraph
20 Oct. 1
They upheld a complaint that .. only men had to work in part of the factory making coloured bursting shells. ‘What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander nowadays,’ said Lord Denning.
men and women
1670English Proverbs
98
That that's good sawce for a goose, is good for a gander … This is a woman's Proverb.
1692
Fables of Aesop
cccii.
Sauce for a Goose is Sauce for a Gander.
1894
Perly-cross
III. v.
A proverb of large equity .. declares .. that ‘sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’. This maxim is pleasant enough to the goose.
1979
Daily Telegraph
20 Oct. 1
They upheld a complaint that .. only men had to work in part of the factory making coloured bursting shells. ‘What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander nowadays,’ said Lord Denning.
men and womenSAVE us from our friends
Now often used in this abbreviated form (see also earlier quotations).
1477
Dicts of Philosophers
127
Ther was one that praied god to kepe him from the daunger of his frendis.
1585
in
Elizabeth I & her Parliament
(1957) iv.
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend, good Lord deliver me.
1604
Malcontent
IV
. ii.
Now, God deliver me from my friends .. for from mine enemies I'll deliver myself.
1884
Railway Engineer
V. 265
The old proverb, ‘Save us from our friends’, may be well applied to the diligent gentlemen who .. toiled through labyrinths of reports since 1877, to dress up a few exaggerated cases against the brake.
1979
Proceed to Judgement
140
Heaven save us from our friends!
friends
1477Dicts of Philosophers
127
Ther was one that praied god to kepe him from the daunger of his frendis.
1585
in
Elizabeth I & her Parliament
(1957) iv.
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend, good Lord deliver me.
1604
Malcontent
IV
. ii.
Now, God deliver me from my friends .. for from mine enemies I'll deliver myself.
1884
Railway Engineer
V. 265
The old proverb, ‘Save us from our friends’, may be well applied to the diligent gentlemen who .. toiled through labyrinths of reports since 1877, to dress up a few exaggerated cases against the brake.
1979
Proceed to Judgement
140
Heaven save us from our friends!
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