Describing a car or other form of transport that is running very low on fuel.
Also an euphimism for very tired.
1. Its lucky we found this garage, look at the fuel guage, we were running on fumes.
2. The runner finished the marathon but later said to reporters that towards the end that he was 'running on fumes'.
Buy a
running on fumes
mug!
A motor accident in which the lead car has another car piled up on top of it from the rear, the result of a
tailgater being unable to stop in time through being too close.
Resembles one car mounting another.
Witness: A kid ran out in the road and the lead car had to stop real fast, the car behind was unable to stop in time and really car fucked him.
Fireman: Well driver in the lead car has no worries now, the rear cars engine block has taken his head clean off.
London, UK.
Jellied eels are an old East End (of London) favourite where they are still sold from street stalls, to be eaten from china bowls sprinkled with hot chilli vinegar. Jellied eels are the sort of street food you wolf down while standing up or perhaps on the way home from the pub.
Traditional foods in London include
pie and mash and jellied eels.