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Red light   /rɛd laɪt/   Listen
Red light

noun
1.
A cautionary sign of danger.  Synonym: warning light.
2.
The signal to stop.






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"Red light" Quotes from Famous Books



... to examine. Pelham thought she was a "Cunarder," but Shuffles was confident she belonged to the Inman line; and it is quite certain neither of them had any opinion whatever in regard to her, except that she was going west; for the red light on her port ...
— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic

... "the old man has let me down badly this time; this car won't move before daybreak. It means a red light burning all night, and we must go ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... sound... as the riving of wood... a sound as of thunder coming up from the ground. A cleft will run like a mouse across the floor. There will be a red light, and then no light at all, and in the darkness ...
— Plays of Gods and Men • Lord Dunsany

... folds glorious beyond description. Father called us out into the yard in front of the house where we had a wide view, crying, "Come! Come, mother! Come, bairns! and see the glory of God. All the sky is clad in a robe of red light. Look straight up to the crown where the folds are gathered. Hush and wonder and adore, for surely this is the clothing of the Lord Himself, and perhaps He will even now appear looking down from his high heaven." This celestial show was far more ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

... "That red light was in my face, maybe; I'm sure if that wasn't it, I can't tell—I was myself wonderin' at your own looks, the same way; but then it was that quare light ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton


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