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off the back of a lorry
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off the back of a lorry  (British humorous) also off the back of a truck (Australian humorous)
if you say that you got something off the back of a lorry, you mean that it was probably stolen I don't know where he gets this stuff - probably off the back of a lorry. There's a new stereo too which, I suspect, fell off the back of a lorry.
See also: back
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A 48-YEAR-OLD lorry driver was taken to hospital suffering from serious head injuries after his lorry overturned in a layby near Llanferres, Ruthin.
Driver hurt as truck flips by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
A LORRY driver aged 31 has been arrested on suspicion of causing the death by dangerous driving of a 46-year-old woman in a four-vehicle pile-up on the outskirts of Coventry.
Arrest follows pile-up death by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Whether it is through luck or fate, lorries just seem to keep finding their way to the centre of the most bizarre news stories and urban myths around the internet Weird and wonderful, strange and terrible, the crazy lorry stories just keep appearing ?
Five Outrageous Lorry Stories You Couldn?t Make up by Gail Kenny / Automotive community
 
 
 
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