Goosey-Loosey-Locks
(A selection from David Tuggy’s blooper collection)

• He’s always trying to kill the goose that lays the fatted egg.

• That guy really screwed the golden goat.

• She’s throwing the goose out with the bath water.

• That was the goose that killed the golden eggs

• Why would anyone want to knock down the golden egg?

• Don't kill the golden goose!
  [nb: In the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale The Golden Goose, nothing (and nobody) gets killed. It is The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs that gets “a whasty nack on the nop of the toggin”. Nevertheless, this is a very common phrase—apparently it’s the standard one for many people.]

• He’s the straightest egg there ever was.

• We don’t have to reinvent the egg here.

• One rotten egg spoils the whole batch

• One bad egg can rot the whole barrel.

See the list regarding chickens in baskets, too

• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.