PLUCK HIS GOOSE

  

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PLUCK HIS GOOSE

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Pluck his Goose I'll pluck his goose for him. That is: I'll cut his crest, I'll lower his pride, I'll make him eat umble pie. Comparing the person to a goose, the threat is to pluck off his feathers in which he prides himself. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PLUCK HIS GOOSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-k-l-o-o-p-s-s-u"

-4 letters: isologues, pishogues.

-5 letters: cesspool, closeups, cookless, copihues, coulises, coulisse, ghoulies, glucoses, goloshes, hookless, hoopless, hooplike, hospices, isologue, leukosis, pishoges, pishogue, polishes, pusslike, slouches, specious, spicules, spookish, suchlike.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PLUCK HIS GOOSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4C 55 43 4B      48 49 53      47 4F 4F 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001100 01010101 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001000 01001001 01010011 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001111 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#72 &#73 &#83 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#79 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004C 0055 0043 004B      0048 0049 0053      0047 004F 004F 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5046553745242435324149495339

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