ALL HIS GEESE ARE SWANS, phr. (colloquial).—He habitually exaggerates, or EMBROIDERS (q.v.); or, He is always wrong in his estimates of persons and things.
THE OLD WOMAN’S PICKING HER GEESE (proverbial).—Said of a snowstorm. [The other leg of the couplet (schoolboys’) runs: ‘And selling the feathers a penny a piece.’]
LIKE GEESE ON A COMMON (colloquial).—Wandering in a body, aggressive and at large: e.g., as FADDISTS (q.v.) in pursuit of a FAD; or members of Parliament in recess, when both sides go about to say the thing which is in them.
