If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today’s bestsellers, and read one from the 1930’s instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just because a city’s name...
Shelly from Dallas grew up calling the shared center turn lane the chicken lane, a term that fits the unnerving possibility of two drivers entering it from opposite directions for left turns. The image comes from the game of chicken, in which two...
suicide lane n.— «The convention passed resolutions calling for standardization of traffic rules throughout the country and elimination of the third or “suicide lane” on highways.» —“Junior Chamber Chooses...
suicide lane n. a center lane used for passing or turning on a three-lane road or highway. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
suicide lane n.— «Johnson suggest that a three-lane highway with a “holding-lane” be constructed.…Kozlovski commented on the three-lane road with passing lane as a dangerous situation that has been nicknamed elsewhere as...
suicide lane n.— «If a driver coming toward you in the other inside lane has to come to a sudden stop, his throwing his weight on the brake pedal will tend to make him twist his steering wheel so that his car veers into your lane. That’s...