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hit the road

idiom

To begin traveling in an automobile or other road vehicle.


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  1. 01

    bump in the road

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

  2. 02

    don't let the door hit you on the way out

    Used as a command to leave in haste, or to indicate that one is glad, or at least unmoved, to see the addressed person leaving.

  3. 03

    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.

  4. 04

    fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch

    To become extremely unattractive.

  5. 05

    Frog

    [Cockney slang]road

    via frog & toad

  6. 06

    get the show on the road

    To begin or launch; to get going.

  7. 07

    go down that road

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

  8. 08

    go down the road

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

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