down the road, not across the street en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, offensive, qualifier:potentially, slang) Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.
We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention.
2021, Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
Translations (1)
es “carretera abajo, no “cruzando / “al otro lado de” la calle” / “enfrente de aquí”” (literally)