| 单词 | omnibus ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasomnibus ticket omnibus ticket n. (a) a bus ticket; (b) a ticket admitting several people. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > other forms of ticket bone1788 class ticket1822 omnibus ticket1839 punch ticket1870 e-ticket1995 1839 G. P. Morris Little Frenchman & his Water Lots 137 These circulated as freely among the community as omnibus tickets or bank notes, and possessed really about as much intrinsic value. 1841 Spirit of Times 16 Oct. 385/3 Mr. Catherwood, in emptying the capacious pockets of a shooting jacket, handed me a Broadway omnibus ticket. 1852 E. E. Hale If, Yes & Perhaps (1868) 3 One hundred dollars..would pay, in cash, the butcher..and the baker,..and would buy the omnibus tickets. 1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 408 Some..tender hearted friends would take in their settlement [sc. family] and then proceed to some hole..in the fence and hand his ‘omnibus ticket’ to some other parent. 1992 ‘J. Gash’ Lies of Fair Ladies xi. 73 You've got to be able to prove that doodle of crochets [sic] on an old omnibus ticket really was done by Delius. < as lemmas |
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