gone goose

Have them down on the wharf to meet us or we are gone gooses.

"If you ever get on the witness stand, tell your story and then are forced to change it under cross-examination, you're a gone goose."

Gone goose: someone about to lose a big pot, often big enough to contain all her chips.

"If he puts a hole in this pressurized cabin, we'll be gone gooses!"

'Kid's a gone goose,' Henry muttered, and made his shaky staggering way past the floating balloon.

If Mr. Gorbachev can be destroyed by some honest discussion in the United States, the man is a gone goose.

He called his union's endorsement of Vice President Bush correct because Mr. Bush is "honest" and "reasonable" and "knows the world over," while his rival, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, is "a gone goose."

'So then you saw that the road just ended at this cliff,' she said, 'and everyone in the theater knew that if Rocket Main didn't get out of that old Hudson before it got to the cliff he was a gone goose.