on the flat
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (UK) On level ground.
- On the same level, at grade.
- 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529:
- Another connection to be removed in September was that from the North London Line to the Tilbury route at Bromley, which crossed the District Line on the flat.
Further reading edit
- “on the flat” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “on the flat” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “on the flat”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “on the flat”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.