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Walker’s ʹBus

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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.

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Waldo
Wales
Walk (in Hudibras)
Walk Chalks
Walk Spanish
Walk not in the Public Ways
Walk the Plank (To)
Walk through One’s Part (To)
Walker
Walker’s Bus
Walking Gentleman (A)
Walking Sword (A)
Walkyries (The)
Wall (The)
Wall
Wall-eyed
Walls have Ears
Wallace’s Larder
Wallflower
Walloons