hatches, matches, and dispatches
English
Noun
hatches, matches, and dispatches
- plural of hatch, match, and dispatch
- 1868, The London Quarterly Review - Volumes 124-125, page 130:
- Those who study diligently the 'hatches, matches, and dispatches' column of the 'Times' will see that the 25th of January (the- festival of the Conversion of St Paul) was a great day for weddings this year.'
- 2011, Anne Ewing -, Leaving the Land, page 110:
- He would have some time for reading his Farmer's Weekly and the Scottish Farmer while the daily paper, the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, was a necessary conduit of local and social news; the “hatches, matches, and dispatches” page an indispensable notice of births, marriages, and deaths in the Fife population.
- 2011, Alan P.F. Sell, The Bible in Church, Academy, and Culture:
- In some households it is still given a place of honour on the sideboard or coffee table, not necessarily to be read but to record the family history of hatches, matches and dispatches.
Verb
hatches, matches, and dispatches
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hatch, match, and dispatch