kill the goose that laid the golden egg

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[kill the goose that laid the golden egg] To spoil something that is good or something that you have, by being greedy. — A proverb.

* /Mrs. Jones gives you an apple from her tree whenever you go by her house, but don't kill the goose that laid the golden egg by bothering her too much./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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