do gooseberry
do gooseberry
obsolete To act as a chaperone or escort for a young couple for whom being left alone would be seen as improper. The old matron insisted on doing gooseberry whenever the young maiden wished to spend time with her male suitor.
See also: gooseberry
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- pick gooseberry
- play (up) Old Gooseberry
- see (one) to (some place)
- see to
- be (as) green as a gooseberry
- gooseberry
- green as a gooseberry
- think nothing of
- take (one) through (something or some place)
- take through