1894 Brewer’s / W / Walker’s Bus
To go by Walker’s ʹbus, to walk. Similarly, “To go by the Marrowbone stage,” “To ride Shank’s pony.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.