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the rubber meets the road

idiom

A place or circumstance at which the implementation of a plan or intent is to be achieved.


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  1. 01

    bump in the road

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

  2. 02

    burn rubber

    To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.

  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

    Frog

    [Cockney slang]road

    via frog & toad

  5. 05

    get the show on the road

    To begin or launch; to get going.

  6. 06

    go down that road

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

  7. 07

    go down the road

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

  8. 08

    high road

    A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable.

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