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Brewer's: Old Gooseberry
To play [or play up] old gooseberry. To be a third person; to be de trop. Old Gooseberry is the name given to a person accompanying an engaged couple.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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