cook somebody's goose

We might have built a trap that would cook the Shadows' goose.

Might as well cook his goose while we're at it.

He thinks he's cooked my goose and saved his own.

To some extent you've cooked your own goose by direct opposition to the unions, to the men in power.

Congress shouldn't go down this subpoena line because they're only cooking their own goose.

For one thing, Tyson helped cook his own goose in the trial by telling a lie under oath.

"We've had success, and now we're wondering whether it hasn't cooked our goose."

"But you cooked our goose by not understanding him."

Having cooked her goose she might as well eat it, too.

Well, naturally this business, if she gets to hear of it, may cook his goose good and proper.