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skunk at a garden party

idiom

Within a group, someone who is unwelcome and actively avoided.


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  1. 01

    common or garden variety

    An ordinary, standard kind.

  2. 02

    everything in the garden is rosy

    Things are going well; everything is fine.

  3. 03

    garden variety

    Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.

  4. 04

    Gay and hearty

    [Cockney slang]a party

    Describing how a social get-together should be.

  5. 05

    house cooling party

    A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.

  6. 06

    lady garden

    A woman's pubic hair, and the area around it.

  7. 07

    late to the party

    Late in taking an action or adopting an idea.

  8. 08

    lead someone up the garden path

    To deceive, hoodwink, mislead, or seduce someone.

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