down the road, not across the street

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Adverb

down the road, not across the street

  1. (slang, idiomatic, potentially, offensive) Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.
    • 2021, Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying‎[1], University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
      We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention.
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