When employed at the South Sea House, Charles Lamb made the acquaintance of a light-hearted foreigner called Elia (an Italian variant of Elijah). He used the name when contributing his essays to the “London Magazine/’ “ Tick,” for credit, is a word at least as old as the seventeenth century. It is corrupted from ticket, as a tradesman’s bill was formerly called. The phrase was originally “On ticket that, 1: . things takt n to be put in the bill.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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