ticket to ride

Authorization for passage

Ticket to ride is permission or qualification to participate in something, drawn from the literal sense of a transportation ticket.

The phrase gained currency from the 1965 Beatles song.

Someone who has a ticket to ride has earned their place or met the requirements: Her credentials gave her a ticket to ride in academic circles.

Also the name of a popular board game about building train routes.

Related

Beatles · permit · journey · passage · admission · fare · opportunity · stepping stone · railway · Cavern Club · strategy · railroads · gateway · entrance · arrival · Liverpool · classic rock · access

Opposites
access/permission

ticket to ridedenial

Refusal to accept reality

barrier · refusal · rejection · no entry · exclusion

freedom of movement

ticket to ridestuck

Unable to move

stranded · grounded · trapped · tethered · anchored

opportunity/advantage

ticket to ridedead end

Passage without outlet

closed door · no chance · glass ceiling · roadblock · disqualification

Family

ticket, ride, tickets, ticketed, ticketing, rides, ridden, riding, rider

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G