down the road, not across the street

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Adverb

down the road, not across the street

1. (idiomatic, of the technique for committing suicide) Along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.
   • 2021, Sarah Walker, The First Time I Thought I Was Dying‎^[1], University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:

     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.