mind the gap
verbCA, US, UK /ˈmaɪ̯nd ðə ˌɡæp/ · AU /ˈmɑe̯nd ðə ˌɡæp/
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Rail transport, Railways, Transport Be careful of the gap between the vehicle and the adjacent platform, while boarding or alighting.
- Don't tell me to mind the gap / I want my fucking money back!2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants:
- I once interviewed the man who made the first 'Mind the Gap' announcement: the one that reverberated for about thirty years on the Central Line at Bank, on the Bakerloo at Waterloo, and on the northbound Northern Line at Embankment.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 220: