horseless carriage
Meanings
noun
- An early automobile, of the types designed before World War I.
- Something new and unprecedented interpreted in older and familiar terms.
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Etymology
Early term for an automobile, at the time it was common that carriages were pulled by animals, typically horses, but the automobiles were not.
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