| 单词 | the first cab off the rank |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe first (or next, last, etc.) cab off the rank Originally and chiefly Australian. the first (or next, last, etc.) cab off the rank: the first (or next, last, etc.) in a series of people or things to arrive or appear; the first (or next, last, etc.) in line. Cf. cab rank n. 1. ΚΠ 1952 Sydney Sportsman 7 Feb. 3/5 Haydock was repeatedly cramped for room down the running, yet when Royal Signal Argentina and Taranta Ra went over the line, he was next cab off the rank. 1953 Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 1 July 9/2 At 6 a.m. on Monday Breasley is first cab off the rank at Croydon aerodrome in England to meet the plane. 1984 Canberra Times 26 Oct. 16/3 Fenton told me that if Anderson left, I'd be first cab off the rank to replace him. 2005 Cineaste Spring 69/1 The latest cab off the rank, Volume 4 of Alain Silver and James Ursini's Film Noir Reader, mines new insights and unearths some not-usual suspects for its contributor list. 2018 L. Hill Secret Vineyard i. 13 He chose her because she happened to be the first cab at the taxi rank—his one-way ticket out of the ‘trap’ he thought he was in. < as lemmas |
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