what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Etymology
1670s, figuratively using / for women and men, and literally meaning that the same sauce applies equally well to cooked goose, regardless of sex. Early forms include “as deep drinketh the goose as the gander” (1562) and similar “As well for the coowe calfe as for the bull” (1549). The expression appears in Dickens when a spy attempting to evade culpability insists, “For you cannot sarse the goose and not the gander.”

Proverb

 * 1) If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another (often of the opposite gender).
 * 2) One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.
 * 1) One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.
 * 1) One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.
 * 1) One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.
 * 1) One who treats others in a certain way should not complain about receiving the same treatment.

Antonyms

 * quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

Translations

 * Dutch: gelijke monniken, gelijke kappen
 * Esperanto: saŭco por la anserino ankaŭ estas saŭco por la viransero
 * Finnish: ei köyhänkään suu tuohesta ole
 * French: sauce bonne pour l'oie est bonne pour le jars
 * German: was dem einen recht ist, ist dem anderen billig
 * Hungarian: ami jó az egyiknek, jó a másiknak is; ami nekem jó, legyen neked is jó
 * Italian: quel che vale per l’uno vale anche per l’altro
 * Portuguese: pau que dá em Chico, dá em Francisco
 * Spanish: lo que es bueno para el pavo, es bueno para la pava
 * Turkish:


 * Hungarian: ami az egyiknek szabad, (legyen) szabad a másiknak is