Translation guide
How to refer to an emergency brake in Japanese, including vehicle handbrakes, train emergency brakes, and figurative uses.
The lever or pedal used to keep a parked car from moving, or as a backup brake.
The brake passengers can pull or press in an emergency on a train.
A measure to suddenly stop or pause an activity, plan, or process.
The most common term for a handbrake in a car. Loanword from English 'side brake'.
Please apply the parking brake when parking.
Also common, slightly more formal or technical. Equivalent to 'parking brake'.
I checked that the parking brake was firmly applied.
Literally 'hand brake'. Used, but less common than サイドブレーキ in everyday speech.
Pull the handbrake before turning off the engine.
General term for emergency brake on trains and other vehicles. '非常' means emergency.
The emergency brake activated on the train.
Specifically the emergency stop button, often seen on trains or escalators.
In an emergency, press the emergency stop button.
Idiom meaning to call a halt or put a stop to something. Literally 'to apply a wait'.
The boss put the brakes on that plan.
Means to put a brake on something, to curb or check a trend. Literally 'apply a brake shoe'.
We need policies to put a brake on inflation.
Direct metaphor: 'apply the brakes'. Used figuratively for slowing or stopping something.
Put the brakes on an overheating economy.