Michigan left turn
n.— «Drivers leaving Wal-Mart will be prohibited from taking a left onto U.S. 17 and instead will have to execute what’s known as a “Michigan left turn.” This requires drivers to make a right turn from the side road and then move to the far left lane and into a median crossover. They then make a U-turn to travel in the opposite direction, but not before coming to a stop and waiting for a green light.» —“Bring on the traffic” by Shannan Bowen in Leland Star-News (Wilmington, North Carolina) Mar. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
David from Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a former truck driver who remembers that his fellow users of CB radio tended to sound similar, no matter what part of the country they were from. Is there such a thing as an occupational accent? Many of those truck...
Katie in Kalamazoo, Michigan, wonders about the expression throw the book at, meaning to “try every means possible.” Did it originally involve literally throwing books? It’s just a metaphor in which the book refers to “the...