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单词 to send in one's jacket
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to send in one's jacket
P4. Phrases in which a jockey’s jacket (see sense 1c) is a metonym for his employment or retention by a particular horse owner, esp. to send in one's jacket: (of a jockey) to resign from the employment of a horse owner. Obsolete.
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1851 New Sporting Mag. Aug. 103 It is said that from this cause Templeman sent in his jacket towards the close of last season.
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock xii. 214 If masters..force a senior jockey to retain their jacket, they are bound to give him their mounts, and not to..prevent him from seeking for more considerate masters elsewhere.
1884 H. Smart From Post to Finish III. iii. 43 Handsomely as Sir Marmaduke had always behaved to him, he could not forget that the baronet had taken his jacket away.
1906 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Dec. 252/1 Fordham sent in his jacket; Archer sent in his jacket; two trainers requested his lordship to remove his horses from their stables.
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