go with the flow of traffic

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Todriveavehicleat approximately thespeedof other vehicles on the road, irrespective of thespeed limit.2017, Stefan Gossling,The Psychology of the Car: Automobile Admiration, page160:I was justgoing with the flow of traffic, and I just happened to look down and I was going a little bit faster than the speed limit.2017, J. R. Bouchard,The Plan, page281:"You don't have to do this, guy" yelled the passenger as he sat there fidgeting in his chair, "we are only trying togo with the flow of traffic, you know?"; (idiomatic)Todriveso as toblend inwith traffic.2015, Greg Hogben,My Daughter's Army, page67:I had to get Sera off it as soon as I could, and the fastest way to do that was togo with the flow of trafficheading toward Brooklyn.2013, Quentin Bates,Chilled to the Bone: An Icelandic Thriller, page19:She decided togo with the flow of trafficand let it take her through the city and out the other side, with a stop at one of the big supermarkets at the busiest time of the day to shop for the week's groceries en route.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary