| 单词 | husbands' train |
| 释义 | > as lemmashusbands' train husbands' train n. (also husband's train) now historical a train timed to run for the convenience of men wishing to join their wives on holiday (cf. husbands' boat n.). ΚΠ 1866 Morning Post 20 Oct. 2 Passengers by the ‘husbands'’ train from Clevedon on Thursday morning brought the intelligence that that usually quiet and unexcitable little watering-place had received some strange visitors in the shape of a couple of whales. 1886 A. Hornblow tr. J. Normand Splashes from Parisian Ink-pot 163 A special train, the husband's train, would permit him to arrive at Tréport the same night. 2007 Mt. Tabor i. 17 The six o'clock train into Mount Tabor on Friday evening became known as the ‘Husbands' Train’, as husbands and fathers poured into the station for the weekend. < as lemmas |
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