单词 | golden ticket |
释义 | > as lemmasgolden ticket golden ticket n. a special ticket (typically one which is gold or golden in colour) granting the holder a valuable or exclusive prize, experience, opportunity, etc.; (hence figurative) anything considered to resemble such a ticket in providing a significant opportunity, benefit, etc. ΚΠ 1683 tr. F. Pallavicino Whore's Rhetorick sig. A5v The Author hopes you will not treat him after your usual manner, but that you will excuse him from that rigorous impost you exact of Strangers, and admit him into the Pit without the necessity of coming with a golden Ticket. 1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life III. 5 I dare say neither of those gentlemen ever refused a golden ticket for their separate benefits any more than I ever did? 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Sept. 159/1 In grateful acknowledgment he presented the former artist with a golden ticket... This ticket conferred the privilege of free admission to six persons in perpetuity. 1964 R. Dahl Charlie & Chocolate Factory v. 24 Five Golden Tickets have been printed on golden paper... And the five lucky finders of these five Golden Tickets are the only ones who will be allowed to visit my factory. 1975 Anniston (Alabama) Star 23 Apr. 10 c/8 A half dozen maids and young cleaning women..enviously watching those with the golden ticket out of Vietnam. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Oct. iv. 13/3 A completed dissertation no longer represents the golden ticket to a future academic appointment. < as lemmas |
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