Speed Bumps

I was afraid of speed bumps, but I'm slowly Same word, two meanings setup temporal adverb gradually, over a long period of time payoff manner of motion at a reduced speed (humorous literal meaning when driving over speed bumps) The adverb 'slowly' is both the expected word for gradual emotional recovery and a literal description of how one must drive over speed bumps. getting over Idiom taken literally literal physically passing over traveling across the top of a speed bump on the road figurative recovering from fear gradually overcoming an emotional fear or concern The phrase 'getting over' shifts from literal (driving over a bump) to figurative (recovering from fear). it.