For me as a 39yo I feel like this one never really explaining. I’m pretty sure both cooked and cooking have been used in this way before. And I actually like it, I feel like they both express the thing pretty well.
And as more evidence, here’s an issue of Boys Life magazine, from August 1938, that uses the phrase “he’s cooked” to describe someone who is going to lose a sporting event. So it’s at least 87 years old, maybe older.
For me as a 39yo I feel like this one never really explaining. I’m pretty sure both cooked and cooking have been used in this way before. And I actually like it, I feel like they both express the thing pretty well.
Ya, I’m sure both of these are at least decades old.
One’s goose being cooked is an idiom from at least 200 years ago. The transfer of that meaning to generally being a single adjective rather than a full phrase is probably at least 100 years old.
And as more evidence, here’s an issue of Boys Life magazine, from August 1938, that uses the phrase “he’s cooked” to describe someone who is going to lose a sporting event. So it’s at least 87 years old, maybe older.
100% cooked has been around forever, and cooking has been a jazz term since… well jazz days