in the pudding club
- idiom
- Archaic
:
embarazada
- She's in the pudding club and due in October.
Examples
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After she started craving unusual foods, her mother suspected she was in the pudding club.
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Rumors spread through the office that Maggie was in the pudding club.
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He winked knowingly when asked if his wife was in the pudding club.
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Are you sure she's in the pudding club?
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After she started craving unusual foods, her mother suspected she was in the pudding club.
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He winked knowingly when asked if his wife was in the pudding club.
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Rumors spread through the office that Maggie was in the pudding club.
Synonyms
1
9.9
A woman who is expecting a baby
1
9.4
Having a baby growing inside you
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'pregnant' is not compositionally derivable from the literal parts 'in', 'the', 'pudding', and 'club'—there is no clear semantic link between 'pudding' or 'club' and pregnancy. This is a culturally specific euphemism/idiom used in British English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words but has not seen the expression would not be able to predict its meaning.
Etymology
In the pudding club comes from a playful image: people imagined a small pudding growing inside a woman's belly, like a secret dessert. That's why it became a light, joking way to say 'pregnant'.