Indeed, you’ve got me with that one. I suppose you could draw a comparison with the fact while Joseph Muscat dresses smartly (i.e a suit) he does not in fact dress ‘smartly’ (he dresses in a mode more suiting the cirque du soleil)

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the for the gander. So I was taught by the dear nuns, oh so many years ago.

Sorry Daphne – I have to disagree with you on this one. I also am a native English speaker and ‘What is good….’ is also a valid expression.

Just to make sure I’ve asked around the office (6 British people; and the lot of us with PhDs, so not the average run of the mill people) and they all agree it is a valid English expression.

[Daphne – Of course it’s valid, but it’s not the correct or original expression. In other words, the two are not equal. English, like the society which spawned the language, is all about arcane codes which sort the human wheat from the human chaff. In brief, the wheat says ‘sauce’ and the chaff says ‘good’. Or, to be even more explicit without being too specific, I say ‘sauce’ and Joseph Muscat says ‘good’.]

Think he changes his ‘hairstylist’ as often as his position,

Not to be confused with bedtime, though.

‘Tenks god’ his hairstylist was available today because I had such a good laugh at tonight’s style. The Fonz, hey.

No, really. Look at the phrases section, half way down the page: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/goose

The ‘sauce’ version may be the original one (or not – I don’t know), but the other expression is also part of the vernacular and was in fact the one I was familiar with.

And I never meant to insult you. I google stuff I’m not sure of all the time. :)

[Daphne – Valid through the widespread misuse of the ignorant. I never Google basic expressions or even complicated ones, because I am a native speaker of the language. Please don’t insult me. The actual expression is ‘what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’. Good, in this context, doesn’t make sense. It is meaningless. The meaning of the real expression is that you can use the same sauce for the female bird as you can for the male bird, and shouldn’t have to make different sauces. But I imagine Muscat doesn’t know that the gander is the male and the goose is the female, and that they’re both a ‘wizz’.]