Bridesmaid

Definitions

1. A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.
2. A person or team that perennially finishes well, but never first.

Equivalents

Examples

“I'd love⟳ to be your bridesmaid at the wedding.”

“I was promised sex. Everybody said it. You'll be a bridesmaid, you'll get⟳ sex, you'll be fighting 'em off. But not so much as a tongue in sight.”

“He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish⟳, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.”

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