Idiom
sleeping policeman
Meaning
A speed bump.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Slow down before you hit that sleeping policeman.”
“The car bounced hard because the driver did not see the sleeping policeman in the road.”
“To ensure the safety of pedestrians in the residential district, the city council installed a series of sleeping policemen along the main thoroughfare.”
Examples
simple
“Slow down before you hit that sleeping policeman.”
contextual
“The car bounced hard because the driver did not see the sleeping policeman in the road.”
complex
“To ensure the safety of pedestrians in the residential district, the city council installed a series of sleeping policemen along the main thoroughfare.”
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