Meaning of one-way ticket to Palookaville | Babel Free

Definitions

Something that results in failure or obscurity, with no chance at redemption; a dead end.

idiomatic

Examples

“Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, a one way ticket to Palookaville.”

“[…] History is […] not symmetrical; you don't necessarily go down in the same sequence backward. What we might get instead could be just a one-way ticket to Palookaville instead of getting to relive the sixteenth century.”

“Well, my one-way ticket to palookaville turned out to be the chairmanship of the select Committee on public Administration. it had never been a particularly prestigious select Committee, but I was going to chair it and I could make of it what I wanted.”

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