Idiom Meaning Use in a sentence Spanish Equivalent

One-track mind Refers to a mind Lucas never listens Cerrado de mente

whose thoughts or changes his ways.
always tend to go in He’s very one-track
the same direction minded
Shift gears Change the line of Maria shifted gears -
your thoughts when she was
suddenly almost done with
her career
Grease Monkey Refers to someone George is going to -
who works with or work as a grease
fixes cars and monkey for the
automobiles summer
To hit the road Expression used We plan to hit the -
when someone road on Monday
begins a trip or a
journey
Fender Bender A minimal accident It was just a fender -
caused by the bender, nothing else
collision of two cars
Buy a lemon To purchase a car I was disappointed -
that is not valuable to find that I had
bought a lemon
Crash and burn Used when someone People crash and -
fails, unexpectedly burn all the time, but
and spectacularly it’s not the end of
the world
To get the show on Used when an Finally, we were -
the road activity that has given permission to
been planned is get the show on the
finally executed road
Old banger It refers to ancient You need to get rid -
and broken of that old banger
You are driving me Someone who is I swear, you are -
nuts extremely annoyed driving me nuts with
because of someone that music of yours
else
One for the road To consume one We need to have -
final drink before one for the road
starting a journey on before leaving
the road
All roads lead to Used for no matter All roads eventually -
Rome which method is lead to Rome if you
used, the result will keep doing it like
be the same that
Stop on a dime To stop instantly It is safer to drive -
even when one is slowly if you need to
doing something stop on a dime
To carpool When people decide We decided to -
to share a single car carpool to save
 for a trip, taking money
turns to drive
Jalopy Refers to an old car Better sell that -
in terrible conditions jalopy for scraps
Amber gambler Refers to a driver I don’t like driving -
who speeds through with your cousin,
the intersection just he’s an ambler
before the light turns gambler
red
To pick up speed When someone or James started to pick Agarrar carrera
something starts to up speed when the
move faster time was almost up
Chopshop Place where stolen Chopshops can -
cars and other sometimes be pretty
automobiles are brutal
taken and broken
down to be sold
separately
Run out of steam When one stops He ran out of steam Quedarse sin
doing something after 20 hours combustible
because they no without sleep
longer have the
energy or
enthusiasm to
continue
Wrap a car around It refers to crash into That road signal -
something something like a tree looks like it’s
or lamppost so that wrapped around
it looks like the car is that car
folded or enveloped
around the thing