wide place in the road

Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C.

When they had gone far enough, and had reached a wide place in the road, Mrs. Cliff turned and started back to Plainton.

But in the whole fifteen miles they met only one other motor, and fortunately that was at a wide place in the road.

They still exist on the blueprint and the Oklahoma metropolis on paper is yet a wide place in the road.

To Amtrak passengers in the northeast corridor, it's a station between Baltimore and Philadelphia; to drivers on Interstate 95, it's not even a wide place in the road between Washington and New York; to its residents, it's one of the best-kept secrets around — a pearl not to be cast before swinish outsiders.