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bumper to bumper
traffic barely moving
If traffic is bumper to bumper, the vehicles are very close together and moving very slowly or not at all.
Hear it in real life
Why are you so late?
The traffic was bumper to bumper near the bridge.
Traffic was bumper to bumper on the ring road this morning.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: bumper by bumper
Say: bumper to bumper
The fixed expression uses “to,” not “by.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
traffic is bumper to bumper; bumper-to-bumper traffic
Your turn: say it out loud
Traffic was bumper to bumper on the ring road this morning.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
bumper to bumper
traffic barely moving
“Traffic was bumper to bumper on the ring road this morning.”
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