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third wheel (plural third wheels)
- (idiomatic) An individual or object that serves no useful purpose.
- (idiomatic) An unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see third, wheel.
person or thing that serves no useful purpose
unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 電燈膽 / 电灯胆 (din6 dang1 daam2)
- Mandarin: 電燈泡 / 电灯泡 (zh) (diàndēngpào)
- Dutch: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kolmas pyörä (fi)
- French: tenir la chandelle (fr), cinquième roue du carrosse (fr) f
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- Hebrew: גלגל שלישי m (galgál shlishí)
- Hungarian: gyertyatartó (hu), harmadik kerék
- Indonesian: obat nyamuk (id)
- Irish: éan corr m
- Italian: terzo incomodo
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- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: przyzwoitka (pl) f, piąte koło u wozu (pl) n
- Portuguese: vela (pt) f
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- Russian: тре́тий ли́шний (ru) m (trétij líšnij)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
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- Spanish: sujetavelas m or f (Spain), mal tercio m (Mexico), sapo (es) m (Cuba), violinista (es) m or f (Latin America), chaperón, paleta (es), lamparita (es) f (Venezuela)
- Swedish: tredje hjul n
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- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: trà xanh, tiểu tam (vi), người thứ ba, con giáp thứ 13 (vi)
- Welsh: olwyn sbâr f
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