| 单词 | golden goose |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgolden goose golden goose n. a source of success, profit, or wealth, esp. one that will be exhausted if misused.With allusion to the fable of Aesop in which a goose that lays a golden egg each day is killed by its owners for the gold supposed by them to be inside it, with the result that they are deprived of the daily wealth they had previously enjoyed. ΚΠ 1809 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 29 Mar. We are killing the golden goose like the foolish boy in the fable; and hereafter, like Venice, Genoa and other republics, which have been once rich, great and powerful, the only vestige of our departed splendor may soon only be found in such edifices as this. 1960 William & Mary Q. 17 398 To have at last the promise of a definitive collection of his works, comparable to the publication of the Jefferson papers already well along..is to have the scholarly equivalent of an extraordinarily reliable and generous golden goose. 2013 Vanity Fair Sept. 244/3 As for her new book on aging, it could turn out to be the golden goose. An entire generation is about to turn 65. < as lemmas |
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