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bump in the road

idiom

A setback or obstacle, especially one which is relatively minor.


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  1. 01

    bump and grind

    A sexually suggestive dance involving exaggerated hip movements, especially a striptease dance.

  2. 02

    bump into

    To meet by chance.

  3. 03

    bump off

    To kill, especially to murder.

  4. 04

    bump up

    To increase something suddenly.

  5. 05

    down the road, not across the street

    Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

  6. 06

    Frog

    [Cockney slang]road

    via frog & toad

  7. 07

    get the show on the road

    To begin or launch; to get going.

  8. 08

    go down that road

    To settle a way of doing something; do decide to do something in a particular way.

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