{"id":72822,"date":"2019-11-11T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72822"},"modified":"2019-11-11T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T07:37:47","slug":"fifth-wheel-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/fifth-wheel-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Wheel | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This idiom or expression is mainly used in American English. As you may have already guessed, a fifth wheel is a person or thing that is unnecessary or unwanted. A vehicle needs just four wheels to run smoothly. Obviously, the fifth one is an unwanted extra. The expression third wheel also means the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I don\u2019t understand why they don\u2019t send John home when we already have three good strikers. He is a fifth wheel. (= He is unwanted.)<br \/>\n\u2022 The poor woman is treated like a fifth wheel by her son and daughter-in-law.<br \/>\n\u2022 I don\u2019t want to work with them. They treat me like a fifth wheel.<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter is keen on joining the team, but really, he is a fifth wheel.<br \/>\n\u2022 He left the team because he felt like a fifth wheel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This idiom or expression is mainly used in American English. As you may have already guessed, a fifth wheel is a person or thing that is unnecessary or unwanted. A vehicle needs just four&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,1858],"class_list":["post-72822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-fifth-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72823,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72822\/revisions\/72823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}