bump in the road
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A setback or obstacle, especially one which is relatively minor.
noun
A very small town.
Example Sentences
- ""The stock market has gone down, but it's just a bump in the road," she says."
- "Ms. Leopold . . . said today that she saw the attack, for which she received more than 50 stitches, as more of a bump in the road than a serious deterrence to her goal."
- "If there is a potential bump in the road for the NBA in the UK, it is its lack of a television deal."
- ""We're such a small bump in the road that driving through Sylvester is like hitting an armadillo at 60 miles an hour," drawls local businessman David Register."
- ""Believe it or not, that ugly little town was the county seat originally, when Pickax was only a bump in the road.""
- "The town of Juliette, Ga., wasn't even on the map until after 1991. . . . Now, the one-stop-sign bump in the road is officially marked along Georgia's long and lonesome Highway 16."