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Metaphors on wheels
April 15, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
“Fast lane” strikes me as unambiguously automotive, and “driven” as unambiguously not. SOED dates this sense of “pedestrian” to E18, so any automotive sense is more recently acquired. “Driver’s seat”, OK, maybe.
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