From point A to point B

“Point A to point B” is a device we use to talk about moving an object from, well, one point to another. For example, let’s imagine you have a small, old car. You don’t love this car. But you don’t need to. You only need the car to get you from home to work. You can say, “I just need this car to get me from point A to point B.” That means, you don’t need to win any style points, you don’t care how fast it goes, you don’t care how comfortable it is, or how good the sound system is–you just need it to get you from point A to point B.

Today’s story was about the FSO Safer. It was recently used to store oil off the coast of Yemen. But it was once used to transport oil–to get oil from point A to point B.

The deck of the ship was so massive that it took officers a long time to walk from one part of the ship’s deck to another. So Exxon, the company that owned it, bought the officers bicycles, so they could get from point A to point B faster.