Sunday driver

American  

noun

1. a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.

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Sunday driver British  

noun

1. informal a person who drives slowly, timorously, or unskilfully, as if used to driving only on Sundays when the roads are relatively quiet

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Etymology

Origin of Sunday driver

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Last Sunday driver shortages affected 110 services across the country.

From BBC • May 12, 2022

Nick Alloway, that lone Sunday driver, sent me to Mrs. B’s Home Cooking, a yellow-painted soul food restaurant a few minutes west of downtown that serves up a different featured meat every day.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2018

Greetings from a southbound C train moving at the pace of a Sunday driver.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2017

Just as the Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties of the crowded highway because he himself is at the wheel, in control of his own destiny, the air traveler often exaggerates his peril.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hundred miles to the gallon for the Sunday driver.

From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward