VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Fifth Wheel

Meaning:

A superfluous person

Examples:

  • The front axle is a turn table steering axle with fifth wheel.
  • I don't want to be the fifth wheel.
  • And I just feel like a fifth wheel.
  • Where's the fifth wheel?
  • Wouldn't she be a fifth wheel?
  • That can on the fifth wheel there.
  • I'm the fifth wheel.
  • Dimensions of standard fifth wheel couplings (see Table 11)
  • Dimensions of standard fifth wheel couplings (see Figure 16)
  • The chassis is fitted with a ‘fifth wheel’.