Meaning of down the road, not across the street | Babel Free

Definitions

Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

idiomatic, offensive, slang

Examples

“We repeated the words ‘down the road, not across the street’ when discussing the use of knives. […] To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention.”

CEFR level