gooseberry season
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gooseberry season (plural gooseberry seasons)
- (dated, idiomatic, British slang, journalism) A period, usually during the summertime, when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting light-hearted, offbeat, or bizarre stories.
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- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “gooseberry season”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 183.
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