On The Funway

Sewe also "Green Grow the Rushes," in which Richard Burton, that estimable Welshman, plays a whiskey smuggler who is perturbed to learn that his girlfriend, just trying to be helpful, had emptied their cargo into the pond in front of his house just as the excise man is walking up the driveway. Unfortunately the ducks in the pond have imbibed its contents and are staggering about the lawn.

"Now you've really cooked our goose," he tells her. "Well...pickled our ducks."