Bumper-to-bumper

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When a car bumper is almost touch another car bumper, you know the situation on the road is bad

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:08.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	Good to see you, Rob. How was your holiday in sunny Spain?
0:15.8	Oh it was fantastic. The sun, the beach, the sea, the food and the people.
0:20.9	It was perfect. How about you you Helen did you manage to get away for the weekend
0:27.1	we had a good start to our weekend at the seaside but it was just awful on the way back.
0:33.0	Oh dear, what happened?
0:35.0	We decided to drive down instead of getting the train.
0:38.0	Good idea. Well, with a car you can explore the coast easily, can't you?
0:42.0	But the train can be less stressful.
0:45.0	And the return journey was absolutely crazy.
0:49.0	So many people going back to London after the weekend.
0:52.0	Ah, so the traffic was bumper to bumper.
0:55.0	Bumper to bumper?
0:56.0	Bumper to bumper?
0:57.0	No, we weren't that close to the car in front.
1:00.0	I know my highway code at least a two second gap between cars.
1:05.0	Well I didn't mean it literally.
1:07.0	When there's lots of traffic on the road and it's moving very slowly or not at all.
1:14.0	The front of one car is almost touching the back of another one,
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