Expressions
Useful words and expressions when travelling by metro
➡ Politeness:
● To offer someone a seat
● To stand up for someone
● To give up your seat for someone
➡Movement:
● To get squashed by the doors
● To get crushed by the doors (more painful)
● To push someone
● To barge someone (out of the way) (this is a lot more aggressive usually using the shoulder)
● To push through the crowd
● To let people on/off
➡Entertainment:
● To hold onto the handrail
● To fall on someone
● To step on someone’s toes
● To elbow someone
● To get elbowed by someone
● To miss your stop
● To have the rucksack of a clueless young man who has forgotten he has a rucksack on pressed up agsinst you.
● To get pushed and shouted at by a babushka
➡Space:
● To move up (to make space for someone to sit down – not so polite)
● To budge up (same as before but more informal; among friends)
● To invade one’s personal space.
● To take up too much space (when someone occupies two places instead of one)