sleeping policeman

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In a post on the Virgin website, the 66-year-old said: "I was heading down a hill towards Leverick Bay when it suddenly got really dark and I managed to hit a sleeping policeman hump in the road head on. "I really thought I was going to die.

From BBC

In the first episode, Gerald and his team set out to reduce the height of a sleeping policeman.

From The Guardian

The credits appear over the image of a sleeping policeman.

From The New Yorker

Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive, taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way.

From Project Gutenberg

"We must be acting," said Fred, springing to his feet; and as he spoke we sauntered to the front of the hut, and saw that the stockman was just raising a carbine, which he had taken from a sleeping policeman.

From Project Gutenberg