I've used it in my answers a couple of times, and I don't know where I got it from.
2007-02-12 02:25:43 · 4 answers · asked by pawt72 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Aesops Fables
2007-02-12 04:07:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people lived around geese a lot, they noticed that a goose would come squawking and pecking to interfere with people coming near her nest. "Silly goose, get out of my way, I am not going to harm your chicks." When a person came into a conversation, whining and squawking about something they know little about, "Silly Goose"
2007-02-12 10:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mother Goose...
2007-02-12 10:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by Jean f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People tend to try and describe animal's actions their actions as if they were people.
There is no basis or origin, only it is a human way of story telling and labeling others.
You have heard or :
You turkey. labeling them as idiots, while turkeys are very smart and honourable birds with character.
you're Chicken yet chickens arent any more afraid than other birds
cuckoo , no bird is insane.
hen pecked , hens dont peck at their husbands but this is the meaning.
sly as a fox , this has a little truth,
and so on, so you see it is just part of our language
2007-02-12 10:39:28 · answer #4 · answered by Father Ted 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋