Do you think I'd play gooseberry at such a time as this?"

I will leave you together, and not play gooseberry.

Just the two of them if possible, she didn't want her father or Georgina playing gooseberry.

She had no intention of playing gooseberry at the reunionof two good friends.

Come along, and you'll be able to sympathize with all poor souls who have to play gooseberry often.

'I've no taste for playing gooseberry to a couple of lovebirds, I assure you.

The reader plays gooseberry to Larkin, and in the 1970's

I don't mind you playing gooseberry at all.'

After a hard day in theatre I do not feel that I can play gooseberry without support."

'All right,' she said quietly, 'if you really don't mind my playing gooseberry.'

That mean she want to be rid of Jeekie, because he got sit there and play gooseberry when she wish talk alone with you.

Byronic charm or not Pat wasn't going to have any nonsense and she played gooseberry with amiable persistence whenever he appeared.

I shan't play gooseberry in case young Hartington turns up-- your maid will be sufficient _chaperon."

'Playing gooseberry?'

A heavily intoxicated Amy and a bashful Lucien sat in the garden with Darryn playing gooseberry.

Shirley wouldn't bother them, father and mother were going to the Manse, Miss Oliver never played gooseberry, and Jims always slept the clock round from seven to seven.

It wasn't exactly a win on the lottery - more a dirty weekend courtesy of the police with two detectives playing gooseberry - but it was better than a night in front of the television.

A-lu-te accepted this solution with delight, and Wu-ming with the best grace he could muster, while Gregory was secretly amused by the thought that he might soon have to play gooseberry.

'Look.' she began in a cool voice, glancing round for Tara, who seemed to have disappeared into the house, 'when I used the phrase 'playing gooseberry', I was referring to my staying at Hummingbird House.

She hadn't been too keen on going, remembering the old adage about three being a crowd and not fancying playing gooseberry, but Miriam had written her a letter saying how much she wanted to meet her, so Caroline had agreed reluctantly.

Olive's answer to her predicament is to insist that she was playing gooseberry for Boadicea and the Lieutenant claiming her sister had set up the rendezvous and that she had heard the child leave her room and followed.

Hazel was just about to go with them, and had even taken a couple of steps towards the stairs, when she suddenly realised that they would most probably want to be alone, and that even the most caring and concerned of mothers could hardly play gooseberry for twenty-four hours a day.