The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Don't kill the golden goose.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.