But still, we blithely tank up on latte and unleaded, and head for the open road.
In-space refueling technology, which enables spacecrafts to tank up in low Earth orbit.
When I entered Washington and chose "Quarter tank," up popped Harpers Ferry, Annapolis, Baltimore, Gettysburg..
Tepco said radiation of 230 millisieverts an hour had been measured at another tank, up from 70 millisieverts last month.
So do a lot of people tank up on warm goat cheese salad with thyme honey or loin of lamb before heading into marathon dance sessions next door?
Tank up before you get to the Bulgarian border, lock the doors and windows, put your foot down and don't stop until you reach the other frontier.
They made it, only stopping once at the top of a hill so we could fill their tank up and push them on their way again.
We have stopped off at a gas station - they fill your tank up for you here; classy - and have got provisions, which consists of crisps/chips and water.
Packing two extended families into one big room and having them stare at you for an hour before they tank up on free bubbly is almost no one's recipe for bliss – there are just too many unpredictable elements.
To tank up returns to the liquid-receptacle metaphor, meaning "to drink too much," and the noun, still applied to the military vehicle in which the occupants are closely confined, also has an underworld slang meaning of "prison".
