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Strasburg Goose
(A). A goose fattened, crammed, and confined in order to
enlarge its liver. Metaphorically, one crammed with instruction and
kept from healthy exercise in order to pass examinations.
“The anæmic, myopic, worn-out creature who comes to [the army]- a
new kind of Strasburg goose.” —Nineteenth Century, January,
1893, p. 26.
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