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fig., brit. be found under a gooseberry bush (Used, especially in answer to a child's question, to refer to the place where newborn babies are found: According to my parents I was found under a gooseberry bush.)
fig., uncom. come out of a parsley-bed; be dug out of a parsley-bed (It can only be unfit for the perusal of such females as still believe the legend of their nursery that children are dug out of a parsley-bed; who have never been at church, or looked into a Bible, – and are totally ignorant that in the present state of the world, two sexes are necessary to the production of animals); be found in a parsley-bed