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Sunday driver
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English
Etymology
From en Sunday driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving.
Pronunciation
en En-au-Sunday driver.ogg AU
Noun
en idiomatic One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
en I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
30 Jul 1990 Davide Thigpen Real-Life Days of Thunder https://web.archive.org/web/20081215155409/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,970765,00.html Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.
en dated One who drives infrequently, and often poorly.
Translations
one who drives slowly
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 龜速車 gūisùchē
Danish: da søndagsbilist c
Dutch: nl zondagsrijder m
Finnish: fi sunnuntaiajelija, fi sunnuntaiautoilija
French: fr conducteur du dimanche m
German: de Sonntagsfahrer m
Italian: it automobilista della domenica m f, it automobilista da strapazzo m f
Japanese: ja サンデードライバー sandē-doraibā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb søndagskjører m
Polish: pl niedzielny kierowca m
Portuguese: pt domingueiro m, pt domingueira f, pt motorista de fim de semana m f
Spanish: es dominguero m
Swedish: sv söndagsbilist c, sv söndagsförare c
en Automotive People