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Useful words and expressions when travelling by metro

Useful words and expressions when travelling by metro

    ➡ Politeness:

    ● To offer someone a seat 
    ● To stand up for someone 
    ● To give up your seat for someone 

    ➡Movement:

    ● To get squashed by the doors 
    ● To get crushed by the doors (more painful) 
    ● To push someone 
    ● To barge someone (out of the way) (this is a lot more aggressive usually using the shoulder) 
    ● To push through the crowd 
    ● To let people on/off 

    ➡Entertainment:

    ● To hold onto the handrail 
    ● To fall on someone 
    ● To step on someone's toes 
    ● To elbow someone 
    ● To get elbowed by someone 
    ● To miss your stop 
    ● To have the rucksack of a clueless young man who has forgotten he has a rucksack on pressed up agsinst you. 
    ● To get pushed and shouted at by a babushka

    ➡Space:

    ● To move up (to make space for someone to sit down - not so polite) 
    ● To budge up (same as before but more informal; among friends) 
    ● To invade one's personal space. 
    ● To take up too much space (when someone occupies two places instead of one)

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