bump in the road | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Asetbackorobstacle, especially one which is relativelyminor.1998October 18, “We Need A Little Christmas Now”, inBusinessweek, retrieved21 July 2014:"The stock market has gone down, but it's just abump in the road," she says.2003January 13, Eric Goldscheider, “Victim Looks for Meaning In Random Subway Slashing”, inNew York Times, retrieved21 July 2014:Ms. Leopold . . . said today that she saw the attack, for which she received more than 50 stitches, as more of abump in the roadthan a serious deterrence to her goal.2012December 4,David Lengel, “NBA commissioner David Stern talks Christmas uniforms, YouTube and TV”, inThe Guardian, UK, retrieved21 July 2014:If there is a potentialbump in the roadfor the NBA in the UK, it is its lack of a television deal.; (idiomatic)A very smalltown.1995June 25, “Wired In The Woods”, inNewsweek, retrieved21 July 2014:"We're such a smallbump in the roadthat driving through Sylvester is like hitting an armadillo at 60 miles an hour," drawls local businessman David Register.1996,Lilian Jackson Braun,The Cat Who Blew the Whistle,→ISBN,page28:"Believe it or not, that ugly little town was the county seat originally, when Pickax was only abump in the road."1998December 6, Marilyn Thompson, “South of Atlanta, 'Fried' and True”, inWashington Post, retrieved21 July 2014:The town of Juliette, Ga., wasn't even on the map until after 1991. . . . Now, the one-stop-signbump in the roadis officially marked along Georgia's long and lonesome Highway 16.2000September 6, Andrew Gumbel, “Fortune was not manna from heaven, just money from mugs”, inThe Independent, UK, retrieved21 July 2014:The Lord has been a good provider in the small farming town of Mattoon, Illinois. . . . The scheme, which began in 1994, proved a bonanza for Mattoon, no more than abump in the roadhalfway between St Louis and Indianapolis.

Examples:

EN: - It's a bump in the road.
ES: -No es gran problema.
EN: - Murph, bump in the road?
ES: -Murph, ¿no es gran problema? .
EN: A bump in the road;
ES: Un bache en el camino.
EN: Don 't worry, Tony knows every bump in the road.
ES: No te preocupes, Tony conoce cada bache en el camino.
EN: A bump in the road caused the Trans-Am to go airborne.
ES: Un bache en el camino hizo que el Trans-Am volara.
EN: Just a bump in the road.
ES: Están tomando un descanso.
EN: Hey, it's a bump in the road.
ES: Eh, es un bache en el camino.
EN: Excuse me, it's a little more than a bump in the road... if our potential investors want me out of the picture.
ES: Disculpa, es un poco más que un bache en el camino... si nuestros inversores no me quieren aquí.
EN: Oh, just a little bump in the road.
ES: - Sólo un bache en la carretera.
EN: - Oh, just a little bump in the road.
ES: - Unos baches en el camino.
EN: [FRAN] Well, thank God it was just a little bump in the road and after three long years of working it
ES: Gracias a Dios, fue sólo un bache en el camino.
EN: Hey, do all you automated units give up the minute you hit a bump in the road?
ES: ¿Siempre se rinden al mas mínimo problema?
EN: Eric was supposed to be in college, but at the first little bump in the road, he comes running back home, and Alan is okay with it.
ES: Eric se suponía debería estar en la universidad, pero al primer pequeño bache en el camino, él viene corriendo de vuelta a casa, y Alan está contento con eso.
EN: This is Dr. Frasier Crane, reminding everyone that life is too short to dwell on every bump in the road.
ES: Este es el Dr. Frasier Crane, recordándoles e todos. que la vida es muy corta para detenerse en cada bache del camino.
EN: You get one little bump in the road and give up?
ES: ¿ Y ya? ¿Encuentras un obstáculo y desistes?

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