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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

a shotgun wedding (British, American & Australian, old-fashioned, 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.

your wedding tackle (British, humorous)

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


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