sauce
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander what is appropriate in one case is also appropriate in the other case in question. proverb
☞ This expression is often used as a statement that what is right or wrong for one sex is right or wrong for the other as well. John Ray, who was the first to record this saying (in his English Proverbs of 1670), remarked 'This is a woman's Proverb'.
2010Guardian Universities … should not … be 'rites of passage' for dullards who go there based on some liberal principle that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Universities should be about academic achievement. The day some lefty decided that everyone should be going there is the day university education died.