gander
意味
- ガチョウの雄
例文
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
一方に当てはまることは他方にも当てはまる。
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
雌の鵞鳥のソースになるものは雄の鵞鳥のソースにもなる。
Let's have a gander at this insolent man.
その不届きな野郎の顔を、拝ませてもらうか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English gandre, from Old English gandra, ganra (“gander”), from Proto-West Germanic *ganʀō, from Proto-Germanic *ganzô (“gander”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). The meaning "a look" is derived from the image of craning one's neck like a goose. The meaning 'a man apart from his wife' is derived from a concept of a grass widower, and of calling a husband a goose. Cognates Cognate with Dutch gander (“gander”), Low German Gander, Ganner (“gander”), dialectal German Gandert (“gander”), German Ganter (“gander”), Norwegian gasse (“gander”), Icelandic gassi (“gander”). Compare also Lithuanian gañdras (“stork”). Related to goose, gannet.