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Broken escalator phenomenon. The foot of an escalator. The broken escalator phenomenon is the sensation of losing balance, confusion or dizziness reported by some people when stepping onto an escalator which is not working. It is said that there is a brief, odd sensation of imbalance, despite full awareness that the escalator is not going to move.
2. After 1928, could mean broken down car [172] floater Person making trouble and then disappears [150] flogger Overcoat [173] floorflusher Insatiable dancer [150] flop 1. Go to bed; fall asleep [174] 2. Grown-up who is disagreeable, socially awkward, and unsuccessful; 1920s [174] 3. Intentionally lose a fight by taking a dive; 1920s [174] 4.
Script of the Bridge is the debut studio album by English rock band the Chameleons.It was released on 8 August 1983 by record label Statik. Three singles were released from the album: "Up the Down Escalator", "As High as You Can Go" and "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days".
Escalator etiquette is the etiquette of using escalators. In many places, there is a convention that people should stand on a particular side to allow other people to walk on the other side. [2] Standing on the right is the most common convention, following early escalator design in London. [1] In the 21st century, there have been campaigns for ...
Dimensions. 147 cm × 89.2 cm (57 + 7⁄8 in × 35 + 1⁄8 in) Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time.
An older English term that was sometimes used for this meaning is afterwit; it is used, for example, in James Joyce's Ulysses (Chapter 9).. The Yiddish trepverter ("staircase words") [4] and the German loan translation Treppenwitz express the same idea as l'esprit de l'escalier.
A staircase with two missing stairs and a warning sign, where the structural problem has not been fixed yet. The missing stair is a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization whom many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be "managed," but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and ...
A terrifying escalator accident caught on camera at Repubblica metro station in Rome, Italy, injured about two dozen people on Tuesday. Horrifying video shows crowded escalator speed out of ...