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Christmas card
noun- in trucking, a speeding ticket US
- — Wayne Floyd, Jason’s Authentic Dictionary of CB Slang, p. 12, 1976
- a guard, especially a train guard UK
Rhyming slang. - — Julian Franklyn, A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang, 1960
▶ off your Christmas card list; not on your Christmas card list
used as an expression of displeasure towards someone UK
A jocular threat, often in verb form: “to cross someone off your Christmas card list”.- When my first son was born, a friend who hovered on the fringes of the radical feminist movement whispered poison in my ear. “Poor you,” she hissed, “having to raise one of the enemy.” I crossed her off my Christmas card list, but the words still rankled. — Guardian, 5 July 2003
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