travelling salesman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The prime minister has become something of a travelling salesman for his deal: taking in Windsor, parliament, Northern Ireland and parliament again in just over 24 hours.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023
A travelling salesman by day, Williams fulfilled his racing ambitions at the weekend and, aged just 24, he launched his own team, Frank Williams Racing Cars.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2021
A travelling salesman awakens one morning, transformed into an insect.
From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2017
Hancock displays the hardscrabble lot of the travelling salesman, with phone calls to the home office made at parking-lot pay phones and lonely nights in shabby hotels.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2017
At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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