a wide place in the road meaning
[American slang]
a very small town.
The town is little more than a wide place in the road.
We stopped at a wide place in the road called Adamsville.
a very small town.
The town is little more than a wide place in the road.
We stopped at a wide place in the road called Adamsville.
Examples
- For a brief moment, a whistle stop, a tank town, a wide place in the road was transformed.
- She comes from a wide place in the road called Shubuta, Miss ., a farming town outside Meridian, not far from the Alabama line.
- Marvin Richie, the good-natured town marshal of Magazine, Ark ., a wide place in the road, got in their way by accident.
- The outpost was no more than a wide place in the road with a fort, held by about 2, 000 troops under General Sir Robert Sale.
- A day's train ride to the east is the city of Bengbu, a wide place in the road that is home to more than 3 million people in its metropolitan region.