middle of the road
The middle; the averageThe middle; the average.
» There's something in the middle of the road.
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1 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)The middle; the average.
If us two competed together, we'd probably score just barely under the middle of the road.
Examples
56 sentencesThere's something in the middle of the road.
Tom stopped in the middle of the road.
Tom was standing in the middle of the road.
ruТом стоял посреди дороги. — odexed
Tom is standing in the middle of the road.
The car was in the middle of the road.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.