wedding (redirected from Weddings)

dance at someone's wedding

to celebrate in honor of someone at someone's wedding. I will dance at your wedding—if you invite me, of course. If you think I will dance at your wedding, you had better be nicer to me!

See also: dance

Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage. and Dream of a funeral and you hear of a wedding.

Prov. If you dream that a person has died, you will learn that person is to be married. Alan: I had a dream last night that my sister was killed. Jane: Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.

See also: and, dream, funeral, hear, marriage

shotgun wedding

Fig. a forced wedding. (From imagery of the bride's father having threatened the bridegroom with a shotgun to force him to marry the bride because he made her pregnant.) Mary was six months pregnant when she married Bill. It was a real shotgun wedding. Bob would never have married Jane if she hadn't been pregnant. Jane's father saw to it that it was a shotgun wedding.

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your wedding tackle  (British humorous)

a man's sexual organs He wears special padding to protect his wedding tackle.

a shotgun wedding  (British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also a shotgun marriage (American old-fashioned)

a marriage that is arranged very quickly because the woman is going to have a baby After a shotgun wedding at 20, she had 3 children before divorcing from her husband.

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be like a spare prick at a wedding  (British taboo, humorous)

to feel silly because you are present at an event but no one needs you and no one is talking to you Everyone else there had come with their partners and I was left feeling like a spare prick at a wedding.

See also: like, prick, spare