A wigwam for a goose's bridle is a phrase, meaning something absurd or a nonsense object, or latterly "none of your business".
It is an old English phrase from the United Kingdom which later found particular favour in Australia, where its first recorded use is in 1917,[1] and also in New Zealand.
[2] An obscure variation has been attributed to the mid-1900s in Canada's Nova Scotia province.
[citation needed] An early recorded use is found in an 1836 article in The New Monthly Magazine, where the phrase is used by an English sailor whose ship was berthed in Calcutta.
[5] The rejoinder was a code for "Mind your own business" and children acquired this pragmatic knowledge after repeated discourse with their parents ended with this response.