A ban on evening flights at the Frankfurt Airport in Germany has caused some of this year's planned routes to be shifted to other cities. The evening flight ban started from last year and stopped all air traffic after 11:00pm. An evening route from Frankfurt to Cape Town has been shifted to Munich. Frankfurt residents have become fed up with the noise of passing jets while they are trying to sleep. The citizens also voted against a third runway in the city.

hit a bottleneck

Dorothy: Why are you so late? We were supposed to have dinner an hour ago.

Paul: I'm sorry, the roads were fine until Malibu, then we hit a bottleneck in the narrow roads. The cars were barely moving. I was stuck for more than an hour.

Explanation: hitting a bottleneck means that the cars come to narrow point, like the top of a wine bottle. It can be used for any situation where things slow down and it is hard to move forward, such as in business or everyday life.

OTC drugs

Patient: Can you give me a prescription to help with my stomach pains?

Doctor Jacobsson: That won't be necessary. You can simply take some OTC drugs from any pharmacy.

Explanation: OTC is an abbreviation for over-the-counter. These are drugs that you can buy without a doctor's order. Other drugs that need a doctor's note are called prescription medicines.

sense of urgency

Dear Christopher:

We need to move faster on the advertising project. We are working on it every day, but we need a sense of urgency in order to complete this project. Please tell your staff that we absolutely must finish by the end of the week!

Explanation: a sense of urgency is a feeling that someone has when they are trying hard to finish something. Sometimes they can lose this sense if the deadline is far away.