gooseberry bush


noun
  1. under a gooseberry bush used humorously in answering children's questions regarding their birth

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How to use gooseberry bush in a sentence

  • Hang me to a gooseberry bush if I do not tell Anna Pappenheim of it ere to-morrow's sunset.

    Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
  • It was a very large and very ugly caterpillar, hanging to a twig of the gooseberry bush.

  • So next day they came again into the garden, and looked under the gooseberry bush.

  • Two children, a brother and a sister, were half hidden under the drooping branches of a large gooseberry bush.

    Dooryard Stories | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • That was why Mr. and Mrs. Robin worked so especially hard all morning, and made so many trips in under the gooseberry bush.

    Dooryard Stories | Clara Dillingham Pierson