Silver Streak (The)
.The British Channel.
“Steam power has much lessened the value of the silver streak as a defensive agent.”—Newspaper paragraph, November, 1885.
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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.