stop traffic

English

stop traffic (third-person singular simple present stops traffic, present participle stopping traffic, simple past and past participle stopped traffic)

(informal) To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
- 1998 February 2, Adam Begley, “Amis Talks American, Takes a Metaphysical Meander”, in Observer‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-10-20:
  She was brilliant and gorgeous, apparently happy and fulfilled, a 28-year-old astrophysicist with a body that stopped traffic and a sweet temperament.
- 2005, Fannie Harris, Tc: L.O.T., page 11:
  "Girl, you have a body that can stop traffic! I knew that my baby look ^[sic] good, but WOW!"
- 2020, Elle Kennedy, The Dare:
  The designer clothes, the waves and waves of blonde hair, a face that could stop traffic.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop,‎ traffic.
- 2022 January 29, Joel Dryden, “Protest convoy continues to block traffic to U.S. border: RCMP”, in CBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 2022-11-04:
  RCMP say a large demonstration continues to block off Highway 4 in southern Alberta on Sunday morning near the village of Coutts, Alta., largely stopping traffic to and from the Canada-United States border crossing.