tin lizzie
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The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thought that the company that fathered the tin lizzie sees a limousine in its future was startling enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine."
From Time Magazine Archive
To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
