gooseberry bush
Britishnoun
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See gooseberry
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used humorously in answering children's questions regarding their birth
Example Sentences
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Now it is entwined with my gooseberry bush, and once a week I rip out the wandering stems before their white blossoms turn into seedy berries.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017
This year she is not planting anything new, just watering her perennials, like kales and her giant cape gooseberry bush.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2015
Her father recovered; Selma struggled on and one day her uncle discovered her poring over the Book of Revelation under a gooseberry bush.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some say he's so wropped up in his garden truck that he don't know a gal from a gooseberry bush.
From "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Luckily currants don't have thorns, for if it had been a gooseberry bush she would have plunged her bare arms in just the same.
From In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
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