get off at Haymarket

English edit

Etymology edit

Haymarket Station is the last station shortly before arrival into Edinburgh Waverly on a train journey from London to Edinburgh.

Verb edit

get off at Haymarket (third-person singular simple present gets off at Haymarket, present participle getting off at Haymarket, simple past got off at Haymarket, past participle (UK) got off at Haymarket or (US) gotten off at Haymarket)

(euphemistic, Scotland) To practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception.
- 2014, Stuart Campbell, John McPake and the Sea Beggars:
  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, Mary Easson, Black rigg, page 157:
  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.
- 2015, Millie Gray, Silver Linings:
  […] 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.
- 2017, Mary Contini, Dear Alfonso: An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter:
  ' […] 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.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ off,‎ at,‎ Haymarket.

Synonyms edit

get off at Redfern (New South Wales)

Related terms edit

three stops short of Dagenham

Translations edit

to practise coitus interruptus, the withdrawal method of contraception