🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
⭐️#ACCIDENT:
✨Have a blowout [for one's car tire]
▶️ to burst.
🔻I had a blowout on the way here. I nearly lost control of the car.
🔻If you have a blowout in one tire, you should check the other tires.
✨Hit-and-run
▶️ an accident where the driver of a car strikes a person or another vehicle and speeds away without admitting to the deed or stopping to help. (Fixed order.)
🔻Fred was injured in a hit-and-run accident.
🔻The state passed a law making any kind of hit-and-run accident a felony.
✨Pile something up
▶️ to crash or wreck something.
🔻Drive carefully if you don't want to pile the car up.
🔻The driver piled up the car against a tree.
✨Pile up
▶️ to crash or wreck.
🔻The car piled up against the tree.
🔻The bus piled up on the curve.
✨Plow into someone or something
▶️ to crash into someone or something; to bump hard into someone or something.
🔻The car plowed into the ditch.
🔻The runner plowed into another player.
✨Take a spill
▶️ to have a fall; to tip over. (Also with bad, nasty, quite, etc. Also with have.)
🔻Ann tripped on the curb and took a nasty spill.
🔻John had quite a spill when he fell off his bicycle.
✨Trip someone up
▶️ to trip someone.
🔻Bob tripped himself up on his own feet.
🔻The loose gravel beside the track tripped up Bob, and he fell.
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⭐️#ACCIDENT:
✨Have a blowout [for one's car tire]
▶️ to burst.
🔻I had a blowout on the way here. I nearly lost control of the car.
🔻If you have a blowout in one tire, you should check the other tires.
✨Hit-and-run
▶️ an accident where the driver of a car strikes a person or another vehicle and speeds away without admitting to the deed or stopping to help. (Fixed order.)
🔻Fred was injured in a hit-and-run accident.
🔻The state passed a law making any kind of hit-and-run accident a felony.
✨Pile something up
▶️ to crash or wreck something.
🔻Drive carefully if you don't want to pile the car up.
🔻The driver piled up the car against a tree.
✨Pile up
▶️ to crash or wreck.
🔻The car piled up against the tree.
🔻The bus piled up on the curve.
✨Plow into someone or something
▶️ to crash into someone or something; to bump hard into someone or something.
🔻The car plowed into the ditch.
🔻The runner plowed into another player.
✨Take a spill
▶️ to have a fall; to tip over. (Also with bad, nasty, quite, etc. Also with have.)
🔻Ann tripped on the curb and took a nasty spill.
🔻John had quite a spill when he fell off his bicycle.
✨Trip someone up
▶️ to trip someone.
🔻Bob tripped himself up on his own feet.
🔻The loose gravel beside the track tripped up Bob, and he fell.
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#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1