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
Pierce stars as the aging travelling salesman Willy Loman and Sharon D Clarke plays his loyal wife, Linda.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
A. P. Carter, the band’s patriarch, had worked as a travelling salesman, during which time he roamed central Appalachia, knocking on doors and “collecting” old folk songs.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
A travelling salesman awakens one morning, transformed into an insect.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2017
“You are Cyrus Bethman Hardman, United States subject, forty-one years of age, travelling salesman for typewriting ribbons?”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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