milk train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milk train
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Able Actor-Director Vaughan left Broadway 15 years ago with egocentrifugal force, but this account of his subsequent travels and travails has the prose urgency of a milk train.
From Time Magazine Archive
She used to get up at five or six in the morning to catch the milk train and loved it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The great question whether Simpson is kicked out of the house to-night, or leaves unobtrusively by the milk train to-morrow morning, is about to be settled," I murmured.
From Once a Week by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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