Sunday driver

English

Sunday +‎ driver, Sunday being a popular day for leisure driving.

Sunday driver (plural Sunday drivers)

(idiomatic) One who drives slowly or inexpertly, as for leisure or sightseeing.
I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
- 1990 July 30, Davide Thigpen, “Real-Life Days of Thunder”, in Time:
  Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.
(dated) One who drives infrequently, and often poorly.

one who drives slowly

Danish: søndagsbilist c
Dutch: zondagsrijder (nl) m
Finnish: sunnuntaiajelija, sunnuntaiautoilija
French: conducteur du dimanche (fr) m
German: Sonntagsfahrer (de) m
Italian: automobilista della domenica m or f, automobilista da strapazzo m or f
Japanese: サンデードライバー (sandē-doraibā)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: søndagskjører m
Polish: niedzielny kierowca (pl) m
Portuguese: domingueiro (pt) m, domingueira f, motorista de fim de semana m or f
Spanish: dominguero (es) m
Swedish: söndagsbilist (sv) c, söndagsförare c

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