This morning, your host received e-mail from a reader with an interesting usage that he hasn't seen anywhere yet, but it sounds too good not to catch on.
We all know that on the windows of barber shops and salons across the U.S., there are signs saying "walk-ins welcome". They're not really that popular anymore (which isn't to say they're gone), but back in the '50s and '60s, "drive-in" theaters were the rage. And when you want to get pizza delivered to your house, you don't have to go to the pizzeria; you just place a "call-in" order.
But now, courtesy of a sign posted on a floral shop:
Walk-in, phone-in, click-in orders accepted
Your host spent a few minutes to try to find an example or two of this one on Google, but there are some 890,000 hits for "click in" (Google ignores hyphens), and all of the ones SC managed to read through are different constructions (i.e. "Will Dell Click in Asia?", "Unable to Right-Click in Windows", "When the plot finally does click in"). Of course, your host also tried restricting the search to pages with information about flowers, and more specifically, ordering flowers, but this failed to produce any results. Of course, every usage has to happen first somewhere, and so perhaps we'll be crediting this florist in a few years.
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