Milking a telegram. A telegram is said to be “milked” when the message sent to a specific party is surreptitiously made use of by others.
“They receive their telegrams in cipher to avoid the risk of their being ‘milkedʹ by rival journals.”—The Times, August 14th, 1869.
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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.
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