communication cordnoun [ C ]
uk/kə.mjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən ˌkɔːd/us/kə.mjuː.nəˈkeɪ.ʃən ˌkɔːrd/UK US emergency corda chain in a railway carriage that a passenger can pull in an emergency to stop the train
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Threats & warnings
- (I) told you (so)! idiom
- (just) you wait idiom
- bell
- cautionary tale
- do you want to make something/anything of it? idiom
- early warning system
- emergency cord
- fire a (warning) shot across sb's bow idiom
- forewarn
- heads-up
- notice
- ring/sound alarm bells idiom
- siren
- slap
- sound
- tip
- tip sb off
- wake-up call
- warning
- warning/alarm bells start to ring/sound idiom
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Railways: trains & parts of trains
Examples from literature
- So perhaps it'd be just as well for me not to have thought of the communication cord, eh?
- Then I made for the handle of the communication cord.
- Well, said the meek voice, "the cost of pulling a communication cord is I still five pounds, and you can have just as good a pull as ever."
- Why didn't you pull the communication cord? asked the station-master, pompously stern.