0 something that gives you an advantage, especially a financial advantage
That legacy is as mythical as golden goose eggs.
They seem to me still to believe that the "golden goose" is a monopoly of capitalism.
In other words, we have paid more or less in gold for this nuclear complex and, for some people, it was the golden goose.
But it is the old lesson of the golden goose.
What is sauce for the golden goose is nectar for the impoverished gander.
He has an obligation to keep this golden goose in good health.
To turn now to the invisible exports, principally the rate of interest on our foreign investments has been the golden goose year after year, and decade after decade.
They escape and get back down to the ground, cutting the beanstalk down and rejoicing over getting the golden goose.
