Tailback

Tom seems to have been late because of a tailback on the A19.

The bus got stuck in a five-mile-long tailback.

There's a tailback further up. Let's take another route.

The tailback stretched all the way from the motorway to the city centre.

The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery.