# British or Aussie term "It's tickets"

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**Created:** [November 2, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-or-aussie-term-its-tickets/516062 "2009-11-02T16:22:53Z")\
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Australian here. I’ve heard “it’s tickets for you/him/ etc” to mean person being spoken of is a goner. No idea of the origin, except that instinctively it seems likely to be related to punching your ticket being associated with clocking off at work.

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