jongo Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 I don't get on or off a bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jongo Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 We got ON to anything we have to step up to (bus, plane, train, bike) and IN to anything lower (car, rowing boat, canoe). What about: In a pickle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 We got ON to anything we have to step up to (bus, plane, train, bike) and IN to anything lower (car, rowing boat, canoe). You would get on to a raft - can't get much lower than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
practitioner Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 Why do we get ON and OFF a bus, but IN and OUT of a car? Could it be so smart advertising that the bus companies decided to create the phrase themselves thus making it feeling like your getting onto something/someone subconscioulsy offcourse. Meanwhile a car is like going home after work in out. You only pay for the one you get on and offcourse you only have a certain amount of time you ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchcoll Posted July 17, 2010 Share Posted July 17, 2010 i thought it was down to how much room you have and how you are encased by the vehicle. all the things you 'get on to' are large so you can get up and move about/walk about on, and you are not so tightly enclosed. all the smaller vehicles you 'get in to' as you are much more tightly enclosed and cannot move about freely. obvious exception being any type of bike as you do literally climb onto it! thats my rather wayward interpretation anyway..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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