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
Morning after morning four summers ago, the conductor and brakeman of a milk train which passed daily, noticed a brown-haired young Italian standing by the track before an easel, painting the granite yard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around the Yankees, .180 hitters usually catch the first milk train back to the farm.
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
Frequently a milk train was the only means of reaching our destination, and, alas! a milk train always leaves at the trying hour of 4 a.m.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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