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get off at Haymarket en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Haymarket railway station is the last station shortly before arrival into Edinburgh Waverley station when travelling from Glasgow.

Meanings

1. (Scotland, euphemistic) To practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception.
   • '[…]Do you and Bill sleep in separate rooms now?' Anna roared with laughter. 'No, darling! I just tell him to get off at Haymarket.' It was not till many years later that Olivia worked out what she meant! She didn't dare to ask Anna there in the middle of the tea room. 2017, Mary Contini, Dear Alfonso: An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter:
   • […]he tenderly whispered, 'Now, my sweet, don't you worry because I was careful and got off at Haymarket every time, so I did.' This remark meant nothing to Kate but to others in Leith who were acquainted with the facts of life it meant that Hugh had been careful not to go full steam ahead into Waverley and therefore put her in the family way. 2015, Millie Gray, Silver Linings:
   • The thought that Lizzie and her man knew about getting off at Haymarket and other ways of delaying pregnancy occurred to Peggy for the first time. 2014, Mary Easson, Black rigg, page 157:
   • John looked at a woman standing further down the carriage in bridal headdress surrounded by her hen party acolytes. ‘She's got the wrong aisle. At least she chose Virgin Trains. All train guards can marry folk you know. But the vows are only valid for the duration of the journey. You can always get off at Haymarket, know what I mean?’ The women shrieked as the inflatable male doll her friends had stowed in the overhead luggage rack idly dangled a leg. 2014, Stuart Campbell, John McPake and the Sea Beggars:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, off, at, Haymarket.

Forms

Relateds

three stops short of Dagenham

Synonyms

get off at Redfern

Translations (4)

da stå af i Roskilde (to practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception) · hu Kelenföldnél kiszáll (to practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception) · nl voor het zingen de kerk uitgaan (to practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception) · de rausziehen (to practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception)

wikipedia: Edinburgh Waverley station · wikipedia: Haymarket railway station