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Meanings of fifth wheel in English

Catalan
roda de recanvi

An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle.

roda de recanvi

Someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded.

Usage of fifth wheel in English
1
She didn't want to be a fifth wheel on New Year's Eve.
Lone eagle
2
She had always been the fifth wheel, passed from hand to hand.
Empire in black and gold
3
The fifth wheel consists of two small flanges working on the face surfaces.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
4
A council to the Duke of Burgundy was indeed a veritable fifth wheel.
Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
5
A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon.
Moby Dick
6
Gay man in his thirties, dateless, the fifth wheel at his friend's wedding.
Something about You
7
She didn't know where she stood-teacher ,familyfriend, fifth wheel?
Table for five
8
Blonde Party finds she is fifth wheel and also ducks.
The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
9
Think I want to be fifth wheel in the coach?
Main Street
10
He was a fifth wheel, so to speak, now that the revolution was over.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
11
I feel like a fifth wheel down here and I'm sick of doing nothing.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
12
Frequently that young lady felt herself to be a fifth wheel and sought some diversion.
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
13
She's generally been treated as a third, fourth or even fifth wheel in the Batman books.
Wired
14
There was no room for a fifth wheel.
The next to die
15
You'll be the fifth wheel to a coach.
Jaffery
16
This sense of direction is apparently a fifth wheel or extra adjustment some people happen to possess.
African Camp Fires
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common