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gooseberry bush
noun
- See gooseberrySee gooseberry
- under a gooseberry bushunder a gooseberry bush used humorously in answering children's questions regarding their birth
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Example Sentences
Hang me to a gooseberry bush if I do not tell Anna Pappenheim of it ere to-morrow's sunset.
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It was a very large and very ugly caterpillar, hanging to a twig of the gooseberry bush.
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So next day they came again into the garden, and looked under the gooseberry bush.
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Two children, a brother and a sister, were half hidden under the drooping branches of a large gooseberry bush.
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That was why Mr. and Mrs. Robin worked so especially hard all morning, and made so many trips in under the gooseberry bush.
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