down the road, not across the street

adverb

Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

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Meanings

adverb
  1. idiomaticoffensiveslangpotentiallyOf the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

    We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention.

    2021, Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN

Translations

Polish wzdłuż, a nie w poprzek
  • wzdłuż, a nie w poprzekliterally
Spanish “carretera abajo, no “cruzando / “al otro lado de” la calle” / “enfrente de aquí””
  • “carretera abajo, no “cruzando / “al otro lado de” la calle” / “enfrente de aquí””literally
Cite this entry
APA

down the road, not across the street. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20the%20road%2C%20not%20across%20the%20street

MLA

“down the road, not across the street.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20the%20road%2C%20not%20across%20the%20street. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “down the road, not across the street,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/down%20the%20road%2C%20not%20across%20the%20street.

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