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third wheel
noun as in fifth wheel
Example Sentences
But here we are, and it sort of feels as if Black women are the third wheel.
What’s more interesting is that Kate’s politics give Jaclyn and Laurie something to gossip about and leave her feeling like the third wheel.
Banderas allows the cinematographer Jasper Wolf to introduce him with a close-up of the gray in his beard, and then settles into the role of being the movie’s third wheel.
“Too scared to tell your best friend? Who am I kidding? I was always the third wheel with you two.”
But despite Payne’s claim, explaining his decision to cast Randolph to The Times, that “if she’s stealing every movie she’s in, then it’s time she should be a lead,” Mary might be better described as a third wheel in the story, serving primarily as a bridge between Hunham and Tully as she cooks their meals and grudgingly allows them to join her in the evenings as she watches “The Newlywed Game.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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