mileage

The difference is that nobody talks about a car with mileage "in" it.

Of course Tes is 99.999 percent right. However I can imagine a context in which "in" maitabin used

And oh WB as you know I kid a lot but please let me know if you found "maitabin" annoying. I get dragged across the eruption by some who seem terribly angry at all times about nearly everything

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Its actually a phrase contraction in that its "implied"

the stolen car's odometer has recorded more mileage ON its totalizing dial than the buyer first thought. ( He's really Kind of a stupid guy who buys a car without looking at the odometer and then is surprised by the actual totalized number when he finally does).
If this is an attempt at writing, the author should be slapped around because he fails to recognize that every thought in ENglish has EXACTLY the words needed . Any substitutions make one read like Bulwar Lyton (It was a dark and stormy night)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton? It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Great stuff!

blows!

I always felt that the writing of HP Lovecraft stank worse than Bulwer-Lytton's, and Ambrose Beirce's too. George RR Martin agrees with me about Lovecraft.

I am 100% right. Just because you can "imagine" someone making a grammatical error, that doesn transform the error into correct use of language.

The only thing criminal (in a literary sense) than Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 use of that phrase is that Dumas stole it from him for his 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, in which he wrote: C'etait une nuit orageuse et sombre, which, of course, has always been translated into English as: "It was a dark and stormy night."

lovecraft talks like all those clam dippers. Even when he does his "mythos" he sounds like hes trying to impress.

I have a Bulwer Lytton book of shorties and they are a hoot to read. He was impressed with himself, and many wonder why.

My Pa Dutch heritage has gifted me with a side that is taciturn , but my Russian side is full of stories of death and hunger. So whenever I write, I try to keep it short but sad.
Its a curse. I have a ton of punch lines but no set-ups

Excellent answers. Thank you.~