It amused me to hear an AM radio talk show host say today that she'd "squared off with a goose." You don't generally see, let alone imagine, a person and a goose act as though they're in a boxing ring, about to fight.
On one occasion, though, a goose squared off with me in a park. I was just saying Hello to the goose and his family, but he took it as a threat and started hissing at me. That's as far as things went, luckily, so we were able to avoid fisticuffs.
