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Goose Lays Golden Kill Egg Idiom Means Destroy

Phrase/Idiom kill the goose that lays the golden egg
Definition This idiom means to destroy something that is profitable to you mostly because of greed.
Example By selling her business, she killed the goose that lays the golden egg.

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