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Goosebridge

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Go to Goosebridge. “Rule a wife and have a wife.” Boccaccio (ix. 9) tells us that a man who had married a shrew asked Solomon what he should do to make her more submissive; and the wise king answered, “Go to Goosebridge.” Returning home, deeply perplexed, he came to a bridge where a muleteer was trying to induce a mule to pass over it. The mule resisted, but the stronger will of the muleteer at length prevailed. The man asked the name of the bridge, and was told it was “Goosebridge.” Petruchio tamed Katharine by the power of a stronger will.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Goody Blake
Goody Two-Shoes
Goody-goody
Goose
Goose and Gridiron
Goose at Michaelmas
Gooseberry
Gooseberry Fool
Gooseberry Picker (A)
Goosebridge
Goose Dubbs
Goose Gibbie
Gopher-wood (נמר)
Gordian Knot
Gordon Riots
Gorgibus
Gorgon
Gorham Controversy
Gorlois
Gosling