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View synonyms for Sunday driver

Sunday driver

noun

  1. a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.


Sunday driver

noun

  1. informal.
    a person who drives slowly, timorously, or unskilfully, as if used to driving only on Sundays when the roads are relatively quiet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sunday driver1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

Last Sunday driver shortages affected 110 services across the country.

From BBC

The singles “Sunday Driver” and “Now That You’re Gone,” one, a classic rock ’n’ roll hit, the other, a bluesy tune about a love lost, fit well into their previous records.

Like the wonderfully world-weary Somedays I Don't Feel Like Trying and the wistful Now That You're Gone, which was released as a double A-Side lead single next to the psych rock stomp Sunday Driver.

From BBC

Nick Alloway, that lone Sunday driver, sent me to Mrs. B’s Home Cooking, a yellow-painted soul food restaurant a few minutes west of downtown that serves up a different featured meat every day.

Greetings from a southbound C train moving at the pace of a Sunday driver.

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