mind the gap

mind the gap

English

Verb

mind the gap

1. (rail transport) Be careful of the gap between the vehicle and the platform it is near, in boarding or alighting; wide gaps between train and platform are caused by curved tracks and platforms in some stations.
   • 2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants:

     Don't tell me to mind the gap / I want my fucking money back!

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 220:

     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.

Translations

be careful of the gap between vehicle and platform

Chinese: Mandarin: 小心空隙 (xiǎoxīn kòngxì) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: varokaa väliä, varokaa rakoa Galician: coidado co oco Hungarian: vigyázat, rés (literally “attention: gap”), kérjük, vigyázzanak a be- és kiszállásnál (literally “please be careful when boarding and alighting”) Swedish: tänk på avståndet

Further reading

• mind the gap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia