one-way ticket to Palookaville

Meaning: (idiomatic,originallyUS)Something that results infailureorobscurity, with no chance atredemption; adead end.1954,Budd Schulberg,On the Waterfront, spoken by Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando):[…]You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? Aone-way ticket to Palookaville![…]2007, Douglas Booth,The Field: Truth and Fiction in Sport History, page128:Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, aone way ticket to Palookaville.2012,James Howard Kunstler,Too Much Magic:[…]History is also not symmetrical; you don't necessarily go down in the same sequence backward. What we might get instead could be just aone-way ticket to Palookavilleinstead of getting to relive the sixteenth century.2017,Rhodri Morgan,Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster, page114:Well, myone-way ticket to palookavilleturned out to be the chairmanship of the select Committee on public Administration. it had never been a particularly prestigious select Committee, but I was going to chair it and I could make of it what I wanted.

Examples:

EN: A one-way ticket to Palookaville.
ES: Un pasaje de ida al anonimato.
ES: Un billete de ida a Palookaville.
EN: Our friends were moving up and we were stuck with a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
ES: Nuestros amigos progresaban en la vida y nosotros nos hundiamos sin remedio.
EN: Now all I've got is a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
ES: Ahora todo lo que tengo es un ticket de ida hacia las palas del infierno.
EN: I get a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
ES: Tengo una entrada a Pallokaville.
EN: c) a one-way ticket to Palookaville
HI: C) पास्कल प्रति केल्विन

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