park the bus

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park the bus

In football (soccer), to employ all (or nearly all) of a team's active players in defending its own side of the pitch. Protecting a narrow one-point lead, it looks like the home team has parked the bus for the remaining minutes of the match.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pio	-	Italian, Portuguese
Syntyche	SIN-tə-kee (English)	Biblical, Biblical Greek, Ancient Greek
Tashi	-	Tibetan, Bhutanese
Albina	ahl-BEE-nah (Russian, Italian, Polish)	Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene, Polish, German, Lithuanian, Ancient Roman
Ritchie	RICH-ee	English
Marten	MAHR-tən	Dutch