Timeline for What's the meaning of "go straight into the sand"
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| Dec 22, 2021 at 18:30 | comment | added | James K | It could also be a motor racing metaphor: Race tracks have sand traps, to slow down and stop cars that go off the track. Hence "go into the sand" means "go off course in a way that permanently ends whatever you were trying to achieve. | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 11:56 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 22, 2021 at 10:39 | comment | added | DotCounter | To me it looks more like a variation of "run into the sand" which like "run onto the rocks" or "run ashore" is a maritime analogy - this time implying coming to a stop as if it were a ship beached on sand. | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 10:11 | history | answered | Henning Kockerbeck | CC BY-SA 4.0 |