Idiom of the Day:

“Where the rubber meets the road”

Americans

use this idiom about cars to express a critical moment in time where you need to perform well. You can go to university and study for years on end to be a doctor, but “where the rubber meets the road” is when you sit down with your first patient. We have all had moments where we practiced or trained in something, or maybe have bragged to friends how good we are at something. But once that moment arrives where you have to perform, that is “where the rubber meets the road.”