loose as a goose

loose as a goose

1. (also loosey-goosey) Very relaxed; perfectly easy; cool: loose-as-a-goose, completely relaxed on the field/ a big party place; people slept with each other, it was loosey-goosey (1950s+ Cool talk)
2. Of a car engine, needing new bearings and other repairs (1950s+ Hot rodders)

[probably both fr the rhyme and the perception that a goose has loose bowels; first sense may be related to an earlier ''weak, flimsy,'' with the notion of ''loosely articulated,'' hence relaxed to the point of languor]