2007-12-20 00:50:12 · 9 answers · asked by DER1DMR1 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Probably from the old days when tranportation WAS pulled by horses. Just a slang that stuck!
2007-12-20 01:05:06 · answer #1 · answered by MISTY 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not. You have to pull the steering wheel to the side. And it sounds better. When you drive to the side of the road, it's not really driving, it's more of breaking and moving over to the side. If anything they should call it 'stop the car over there'... if you know what i mean.
2007-12-20 01:04:25 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the old days when you had a lever instead of a wheel to steer an automobile, you'd have to pull it to get the car to drive over to the side of the road.
2007-12-20 00:52:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pull over means you are going to stop driving the vehicle. The police may ask you to pull over if you are speeding. They won't say, "Drive the car over."
2007-12-20 02:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by cidyah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Force of habit and the fact that language and logic are two separate realms and customary usage is often illogical, even a-logical. To this day, we still refer to sunrises and sunsets even though most people now know that the Sun isn't moving in a circle about the Earth as the ancients thought. The phrase you mentioned is probably a hold-over from the horse and buggy days. The earliest autos were refered to as "horseless carriages". Get the idea?
2007-12-20 02:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Keira D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It originates from the day when the team was of real horses instead of horse power. The reigns had to be pulled. so one pulled the team over literally. Now its just " pull over"
2007-12-20 01:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by nutsfornouveau 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if we did we wouldn't have the joke where the police saw a little old lady knitting at the wheel of her car on the motorway - and they wound their window down and shouted 'Pullover' and she shouted back 'no, its a pair of mittens'.
Merry Christmas.
2007-12-20 09:05:05 · answer #7 · answered by bri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we say ''pull the car over''because it mens to pull your car to th side of the road so they don't have to stop traffic.
2007-12-20 01:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Rachel Crum 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause that is what we say..just go with it..
2007-12-20 00:57:50 · answer #9 · answered by Dawne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋