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claim check
Idioms and Phrases
A receipt for property that has been left or deposited, as in Give me your claim check and I'll pick up your laundry for you . This term most often refers to a receipt for such items as laundry (left for washing), clothes (for dry cleaning), a car (for servicing), or baggage (for short-term storage). [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Keep your baggage claim check and know your ticket and flight number.
Jolley exited the store with claim check No. 36432 and good news: Her embroidery machine could be fixed for about $100, and might be done in a week.
Add to that the cost of doing a claim check, and the total bill could easily reach five figures, which would be beyond the means of most authors.
After we checked our baskets and bedrolls, Sass handed me my claim check and hurried me into the street, where she hailed a bicycle rickshaw.
There was daycare for the children of visitors, and much fun was made of the fact that when you left your child at the Children’s Building, you received a claim check in return.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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