pick gooseberry
pick 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 picking gooseberry whenever the young maiden wished to spend time with her male suitor.
See also: gooseberry, pick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- do gooseberry
- see (one) to (some place)
- see to
- with apologies to
- take (one) through (something or some place)
- take through
- land so poor it wouldn't even raise a fuss
- land so poor you couldn't raise a fuss on it
- walk out with
- walk out with (someone or something)