"ticket to ride" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the use of tickets to control access to various forms of transportation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tickets to ride",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tickets to ride"
      },
      "expansion": "ticket to ride (plural tickets to ride)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Doug \"Ten\" Rose, Fearless Puppy on American Road, page 100:",
          "text": "The club's “partners” had made arrangements with the police, so employees were cop proof too. All this amounted to a ticket to ride for me. The party only stopped when I wanted it to.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kurt Fishback, Passion with Purpose, page 50:",
          "text": "The plan was always to teach and at the college level. This required a graduate degree, the next ticket to ride.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rob Thurman, Carniepunk: Painted Love:",
          "text": "I came across Bart on a week away, whoring and drinking mostly, heard his glib stories about where he worked, and there found my opportunity. His ego was my ticket to ride.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that enables one to do something which would otherwise not be possible."
      ],
      "id": "en-ticket_to_ride-en-noun-Slpe~Mm2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that enables one to do something which would otherwise not be possible."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ticket, ride."
      ],
      "id": "en-ticket_to_ride-en-noun-k3NIAwyM",
      "links": [
        [
          "ticket",
          "ticket#English"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ticket to ride"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the use of tickets to control access to various forms of transportation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tickets to ride",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tickets to ride"
      },
      "expansion": "ticket to ride (plural tickets to ride)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Doug \"Ten\" Rose, Fearless Puppy on American Road, page 100:",
          "text": "The club's “partners” had made arrangements with the police, so employees were cop proof too. All this amounted to a ticket to ride for me. The party only stopped when I wanted it to.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kurt Fishback, Passion with Purpose, page 50:",
          "text": "The plan was always to teach and at the college level. This required a graduate degree, the next ticket to ride.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Rob Thurman, Carniepunk: Painted Love:",
          "text": "I came across Bart on a week away, whoring and drinking mostly, heard his glib stories about where he worked, and there found my opportunity. His ego was my ticket to ride.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that enables one to do something which would otherwise not be possible."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that enables one to do something which would otherwise not be possible."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ticket, ride."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ticket",
          "ticket#English"
        ],
        [
          "ride",
          "ride#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ticket to ride"
}