walking ticket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of walking ticket
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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You might give your father his walking ticket very properly, because you never expect five sous from him; and you have already learned how to earn your living without doing any work at all.
From The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau
You did well to give that sneak his walking ticket!
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
As soon as the crisis is over, I will give her a walking ticket!
From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés
Well, I'm almost tempted to give 'Rion his walking ticket.
From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
"She'll give him his walking ticket, I hope."
From The Store Boy by Horatio Alger
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