Idiom
the old woman is plucking her goose
Meaning
It is snowing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Look outside, the old woman is plucking her goose.”
“The children cheered when they saw the first flakes, saying the old woman is plucking her goose.”
“As the sky turned a heavy grey and the first soft flakes descended, the villagers remarked that the old woman is plucking her goose.”
Examples
simple
“Look outside, the old woman is plucking her goose.”
contextual
“The children cheered when they saw the first flakes, saying the old woman is plucking her goose.”
complex
“As the sky turned a heavy grey and the first soft flakes descended, the villagers remarked that the old woman is plucking her goose.”
Origin
A metaphorical comparison likening falling snowflakes to the white feathers of a bird, specifically those shed during the plucking of a goose.
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