milk train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milk train
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
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
The milk train came suddenly in sight through the tunnel, like a lighted thread going through a needle.
From The City of Fire by Hill, Grace Livingston
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