milk train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milk train
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
Once a student did fall asleep�after having taken the milk train in from Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Following Viennese custom, they included one long, serious number � an allegory that chugs back through history making as many stops as a milk train.
From Time Magazine Archive
The principal border-crossing point for the region is Suifenhe, five hours by the daily milk train from Mudanjiang, near the Ussuri River, scene of some of the fiercest fighting in 1969.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under ordinary circumstances and upon general principles, no body of workmen has any more right to suddenly stop work without notice than railway managers have to stop a daily milk train.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
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