John got the ticket in a bucket shop the day after he came back from China. BNC
They will allow themselves to be stripped of savings by bucket shop practitioners who are not, strictly speaking, licensed dealers, but who operate on the same principles. BNC
They take a bucket shop air ticket or limited stay ticket and jet to a major city like London, Paris, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Florence or Milan simply to shop until they drop. WebC