| 单词 | stop-me-and-buy-one |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstop-me-and-buy-one stop-me-and-buy-one n. [ < the slogan on the refrigerated box at the front of Wall's Ice-Cream tricycles] a travelling vendor of refreshments, usually ice-creams; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > itinerant or pedlar > other pedlars snarler1398 stop-me-and-buy-one1935 1935 Automobile & Carriage Builders' Jrnl. 75 4/1 ‘Stop me and buy one.’ The latest type of cycle carrier for ice-cream vending.] 1935 Food Oct. 3/1 A holiday spent in a number of South Coast towns suggests that England is..becoming as ice-cream-minded as North America. The last three hot summers have provided a golden harvest for the familiar tricycle. But even more recent..has been the appearance..of the ‘ice-cream parlour’... ‘Come in and have one’ is evidently proving as alluring a slogan as the more familiar ‘Stop me and buy one’. 1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 49 Asked if I'd got an ice-cream wafer... What did she think I was, a ‘Stop me and buy one’? 1939 N. Monsarrat This is Schoolroom xi. 228 To..buy an ice from the stop-me-and-buy-one man. 1947 D. Thomas Let. 11 Apr. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 300 There were stop-me-&-buy-one bicycle boys selling, not ice-cream, but bottles of Chianti. 1979 D. Robinson Eldorado Network iii. xliii. 288 Ice cream. Stop-me-and-buy-one, the Eldorado man on a tricycle. < as lemmas |
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