| 单词 | milk run |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk run milk run n. (a) = milk round n. (a); (b) colloquial a routine trip or service, usually involving calls at several places, esp. an early morning train or flight; (c) spec. (U.S.A.F. slang), a safe or uneventful mission; a flight completed without risk or incident. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round milk-walk1805 milk round1865 milk route1874 milk run1909 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > regular milk round1865 run1893 milk run1909 society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated milk round1865 milk run1909 shuttle flight1944 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milk round milk round1865 milk route1874 milk run1909 1909 Truth (Sydney) 14 Feb. 7/4 He had drawn £11 out to buy a milk run. 1925 Notes & Queries 21 Mar. 208/1 In the dairy trade phrases such as ‘He has a milk-run’ or, ‘he has a milk-walk’..are common. 1942 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Nov. 13/2 A Winton (Q.) boundary rider..established his ‘milk run’ during the great rat plague. 1943 Yank 20 Jan. 6/1 The boys were rehashing the previous day's party, which they had dubbed the ‘Morning Milk Run’. 1944 T. H. Wisdom Triumph over Tunisia vi. 54 It was General Doolittle who organised the ‘milk-run’ Fortress raids on the ports of Tunis and Bizerta. 1964 Observer 11 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 17/2 Similar risks must be taken by transport aircraft pilots, flying their daily ‘milk runs’ to supply jungle-bound positions along the 1,000-mile frontier [of Borneo]. 1969 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 11/5 Another way of island hopping down to Grenada..is to catch the early morning ‘milk-run’ plane from Antigua, which calls in at Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Barbados, collecting and unloading passengers, mail and newspapers as it goes. 1972 Guardian 30 Dec. 13 Woe betide any who suddenly discovers he has to go to Brussels the next morning. The businessmen's milkrun is always booked days ahead. 1991 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. a8 Their missions were not quite cakewalks or milk runs. 1992 Prairie Fire Autumn 183 She sits in the Winnipeg Union Station waiting to catch the milk run to Winnipegosis. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 77 The whole two-hundred-mile length of our Chesapeake, from Virginia Capes to C & D Canal, is a mere milk run for seasoned traversers of the Intracoastal Waterway. < as lemmas |
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