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Originally Posted by Christopher ONeill
Thanks for the heads-up.
I wouldn't have known the expression 'gypsy cab' when I first heard 'Trouble with the Classicists': it isn't the local idiom.
But I must have retained my original misconstruction of the line even after I became familiar with 'gypsy cab' as a term.
I shall miss my mondegreen, but I suppose one needs to stay true to the words of a poem.
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Hi Christopher
"Gypsy cabs" are well known in New York and other cities. They are unlicensed cabs that take business away from regular cabbies.
Chris