stale green

a traffic light that has been green for a long while so you know any second it is going to turn yellow so be ready

better get ready to slow down, that's a stale green light

by Woody Thomas December 9, 2008

stale green

When a traffic light in the direction you are going has been green so long that you know it will change any second.

Passenger: "It's a stale green man, you're not going to make it."

Driver: "No way. Look, it changed after we went through."

by framboise eau de vie June 1, 2009