to make a pit stop
9
3.8
- phrasal verb
:
hacer una parada
- We decided to make a pit stop at the rest area to grab some coffee.
- just make a pit stop
- gotta make a pit stop
- gonna make a pit stop
Examples
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I'll be making a pit stop in about five more minutes.
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I gotta make a pit stop.
Fiction book (1995) -
-Oh, I gotta make a pit stop.
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But I say we make a pit stop at my house.
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Just came in to make a pit stop.
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I had to make a pit stop.
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We gotta make a pit stop.
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- Can we make a pit stop?
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We're making a pit stop first.
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Could we make a pit stop?
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To pause a journey to stay at a place
494
2.5
To make a short visit to a person or place
1
3.9
Stop at a place for a short time while going somewhere else
Antonyms
How Long
496
1.4
∞
1.0
294
2.8
9
3.8
346
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'make' and 'stop' clearly signal performing a brief interruption of a journey, the noun 'pit' does not transparently convey the idea of a short roadside pause for refreshments or the restroom to an average B1 learner unless they know the racing-derived collocation 'pit stop'. The general notion of a short stop is partly inferable from the constituents, but the specialized, culturally conditioned sense is not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Make a pit stop comes from car racing, where drivers pull into the pit so the team can quickly change tires and add fuel. Because the car only stops for a short time, to make a pit stop now means 'to stop briefly' during a journey to rest or get something.