what's good for the goose is good for the gander

English

Etymology

From earlier what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (1670s). Other early forms include “as deep drinketh the goose as the gander” (1562).[1][2]

Proverb

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

  1. What is good for a woman is equally good for a man; or, what a woman can have or do, so can a man have or do.
  2. What is good for one type is equally good for another type, despite any irrelevant differences between the types.

References
  1. John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, 1562, "as+deep+drinketh+the+goose+as+the+gander" p. 82
  2. John Lyly, Euphues and his England, 1579/1580, “as deepe drinketh the Goose as the Gander”, note on p. 377
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