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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady



 
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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady #1 (permalink) Thu May 17, 2007 15:56 pm   Idiom: to drive like a little old lady
 

Hi,

Is this idiom commonplace in your dialect area?

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to drive like a little old lady #2 (permalink) Thu May 17, 2007 17:23 pm   to drive like a little old lady
 

Englishuser wrote:
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Is this idiom commonplace in your dialect area?

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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady #3 (permalink) Thu May 17, 2007 18:51 pm   Idiom: to drive like a little old lady
 

The comparison I usually hear in this neck of the woods is that someone drives like a geezer (which would be driving like an old man). Cool
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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady #4 (permalink) Fri May 18, 2007 6:43 am   Idiom: to drive like a little old lady
 

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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady #5 (permalink) Fri May 18, 2007 11:31 am   Idiom: to drive like a little old lady
 

Some common Spanish expressions are 'to drive like a granny/grandpa' or 'like a Sunday driver', as in English. In French we often say 'to drive like a foot/like a tortoise/like a snail.
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Idiom: to drive like a little old lady #6 (permalink) Sat May 19, 2007 15:04 pm   Idiom: to drive like a little old lady
 

Hi there,

Here in Jordan we tend to say " He is walking on egges, He's afraid to break it" as I translate it from Arabic
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