Meaning of amber light | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amber-coloured traffic light indicating that vehicles should stop unless it is unsafe to do so, approximately equivalent to the yellow light in the US.
   British
2. Hesitance to proceed; limited approval or permission to proceed.
   British, idiomatic
3. A yellow light.
   US, dated

Examples

“[In 1947 Chicago:] Then the changing traffic lights seemed to warn⟳ no one but himself: STOP⟳. And so waited prudently, though there was no traffic in sight and the wind so bitter, till the amber light⟳ counseled him to look⟳ both ways, for enemy and friend alike, before crossing carefully.”

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