third wheel

English

Noun

third wheel (plural third wheels)

(idiomatic) A person or thing that serves no useful purpose.
(idiomatic) An unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date.

Synonyms

fifth wheel, gooseberry (British)

Translations

person or thing that serves no useful purpose

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: painolasti (fi)
French: troisième roue f
Italian: ultima ruota del carro f

Russian: третий лишний (tretij lišnij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тринаесто прасе

Roman: trinaesto prase
Spanish:

unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date

Chinese:
Mandarin: 電燈泡 (zh), 电灯泡 (zh) (diàndēngpào)
Finnish: kolmas pyörä
Hungarian: gyertyatartó (hu)

Indonesian: obat nyamuk (id)
Italian: terzo incomodo
Portuguese: vela (pt) f
Spanish: sujetavelas m, f (Spain), mal tercio m (Mexico), sapo (es) m (Cuba), violinista (es) m, f (Latin America)

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